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Bonsai Tree – Black Pine / Pinus Thumbergii Tips And Information
Apr 4th
Hello all bonsai devotees. How are you? My name is Suhendra. I want to tell you my experience on how to keep, treat and create black pine bonsai. Perhaps this experience is only suitable for tropical area and I hope those who plant black pine will also have different experience to share. I have tried to plant black pine since 5 years ago (around 1980) when I got the seed from a friend traveling abroad.
I have known and fallen in love with black pine bonsai, since I had learn about bonsai for two years from a foreign book on how More >
Getting Started With your Bonsai Hobby
Mar 31st
Getting Started with Bonsai
Bonsai is an enjoyable hobby and form of art. However, unlike most other art forms bonsai is unique in that one’s canvas is alive and changing. Aside from the art side of things one needs to develop some knowledge of arboriculture. Along with knowing how to make the tree look appealing one also needs to keep it alive. This article will serve as an overview of bonsai basics to help beginners get started with the hobby of bonsai.
Selecting a bonsai tree
From a high level one can classify bonsai trees into two groups; indoor and outdoor. Outdoor bonsai More >
Bonsai Tree Information and Bonsai Tree Care
Mar 26th
Bonsai trees have often been thought to have originated from Japan. However, records of more than 2,000 years old show that bonsai trees have been growing in China, not only as part of landscapes, but also in shallow containers. Approximately 1,500 years ago, Bonsai trees were first grown individually after being collected from mountainous regions. Bonsai trees can be seen on many ancient Chinese line drawings. It was several centuries later that the Japanese began to grow and train the trees in pots. The Chinese and Japanese styles of Bonsai are very different. The Chinese styles are more freeform and More >
How to Make Your Bonsai Look Older
Mar 21st
One of the most important aspects of your bonsai is the age. Not the actual age of your bonsai, but what age your bonsai appears to be. As far as aesthetics are concerned, it is important that your bonsai appears far more aged than it actually is. If you are able to create the appearance of a 500 year-old pine with a 5 year old bonsai, then you are surely well regarded and envied by the majority of your peers.
When you attempt to age your bonsai you want it to have certain characteristics, such as: tight, fine foliage; bark with More >
First Time Bonsai: a 5 Points Survival Guide
Mar 11th
More often than not, the approach to bonsai art comes with a present. A friend, a relative or a partner gives a new little tree in a short pot and he canâ??t tell us how to handle it.
Those bonsai trees are set on a piece of furniture or next to a window and normally die in a couple of months. Here comes the misconception that bonsai trees die after a short time.
But a bonsai can live among hundreds of years (there are specimens of 1000 years and more), so you are not excused if you let your bonsai die. But More >
Bonsai Care – the Right Environment
Mar 6th
Taking care of a Bonsai tree is very rewarding and enables you to enjoy and appreciate owning a healthy bonsai tree for many years. Bonsai care is time well spent.
Temperature
Why is temperature important for bonsai?
During winter months it is vital that you keep your new indoor bonsai warm — Not hot — but warm, somewhere between 50 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Where your bonsai falls on this guideline depends on where your bonsai is from “originally” and by this I mean where in the world your bonsai is indigenous… the warmer the native climate, the warmer the More >
Easy Bonsai Care for Beginners
Mar 1st
Bonsai Care: First Things First
As with any garden, the basic elements that your bonsai plant will need to thrive are the right soil, the appropriate amount of light, and the right amount of water.Â
However, bonsai care involves fulfilling certain needs that ordinary plants donâ??t have. For instance, did you know that most bonsai trees are bred to be outdoor plants like their full-sized counterparts? If you bring a sun-loving bonsai inside, be prepared to give it 12-16 hours a day of fluorescent light. There are, however, some bonsai plants that do not need that much light, and these More >
Bonsai Care
Mar 1st
Bonsai Care
The very word ‘bonsai’ conjures so many thoughts to many people. Almost a warrior sound yet in reality the word bonsai refers to a miniature tree called a bonsai tree.
Where Bonsai Started.
Most of us associate bonsai with the Japanese. Apparently the art of bonsai care and development as we know it today originated in China and was known as Pensai in China. Pensai as it was known has been traced back to around 600 a.d. and subsequently made it’s way to Japan
The word “Bonsai” comprises of two parts ‘bone’ meaning tray and “sai” meaning plant, which when literally translated More >
Wiring of Bonsai Trees
Dec 18th
Wiring is the practice of wrapping aluminum or copper wire around bonsai trees trunks or branches, in order to shape the tree gradually. The branches & trunks are wrapped in either anodized aluminum or annealed copper wire & held in place for a few weeks or months until they fuse into position. Once the wires are removed, the branches & trunks that were wired, stay in shape & place.
It’s important to remember that the wire should be anodized aluminum or annealed copper. This is because harmful metals can leach out from other types of wires & be ingested by the tree, More >
