Bonsai Pictures – Soil and Watering Bonsai trees
This article from Bonsai Pictures is all about how to water your Bonsai tree and what soil to use The Substrate The substrate used for growing bonsai is generally composed of: 25% sand 25% of small rocks 25% black earth 25% clay. Personally, I buy my substrate for bonsai. If you want to make your own substrate, just look in the books on bonsai, each author has his own recipe! Tips It is good to add Mycorise to the substrate for bonsai. What's Mycorise? The Mycorise (Mysillium mushroom) promotes the uptake of fertilizer per tree. It is generally bought in the form of granules. It can be found in stores specializing in ...
Pruning your bonsai.
The roots This short article from Bonsai pictures is all about how to cut and prune your roots and branches effectivly. The function of the roots are to retain the Bonsai tree in the substrate, store nutrients during the rest period and to absorb water and nutrients during the growing season. After 2-3 years in the same pot, the roots of a bonsai typically fill the pot. If left like that, it will choke with its roots and therefore die. We must therefore do what is known as re-potting. The re-potting is usually done before the emergence of new shoots in the spring ...
Bonsai pictures – Fertilizing bonsai
Fertilising Bonsai Trees There are two types of fertilizer, organic and chemical. Personally, I use only chemical fertilizers, I find it is easier to use (it is dissolved in water). The fertilizer is composed of these three elements. N: Nitrogen (for new growth) P: Phosphorus (for flowering) K: Potassium (Hardens branches, around August) Chemical Fertilizers: Examples of concentration available 15-30-15: For using at the start of the growing season for trees to flower. 20-20-20: For using at the beginning and during the growth season for trees. 30-10-10: For use at the start and during the growing season for trees with needles. 10-10-30: For use at the end of the autumn period. ...
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Bonsai Pictures – Soil and Watering Bonsai treesThis article from Bonsai Pictures is all about how to water your Bonsai tree and...
Pruning your bonsai.
The roots This short article from Bonsai pictures is all about how to cut and prune...
Bonsai pictures – Fertilizing bonsai
Fertilising Bonsai Trees There are two types of fertilizer, organic and chemical. Personally,...
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Bonsai Q&A's
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Articles
Getting Started With your Bonsai HobbyGetting 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... [Read more of this review]
Bonsai Tree Information and Bonsai Tree Care
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... [Read more of this review]
How to Make Your Bonsai Look Older
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... [Read more of this review]
What You Need to Know When Buying Bonsai Trees As a Gift
Whether the occasion is a birthday, secretaries day, mothers day, fathers day or the holidays (Christmas, Hanukah or Kwanzaa) bonsai trees make great gifts. Bonsai trees are a perfect gift for any loved one born with or without a green thumb. If you know someone special who loves and takes delight in caring for plants then bonsai trees may indeed... [Read more of this review]
First Time Bonsai: a 5 Points Survival Guide
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 canât 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... [Read more of this review]
Bonsai Care – the Right Environment
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,... [Read more of this review]
Easy Bonsai Care for Beginners
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. However, bonsai care involves fulfilling certain needs that ordinary plants donât have. For instance, did you know that most bonsai trees... [Read more of this review]
Bonsai Care
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... [Read more of this review]
Pine
This is the classical bonsai subject in Japan — and the world over, for that matter. Pines make erect growing, stately trees, with powerful and tall trunks that often have bark flaking off in solid plates. Pines are found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, usually in arid and mountainous places. There are many other trees with the word ‘pine’... [Read more of this review]
What is a tree and how does it function?
We have all at least once in our lives been fascinated by the trees that we pass. Their beauty, their majesty can only inspire us. Some are content to just watch. Others want to understand how a tree works. Here at Bonsai Pictures we will try to answer this question, at least in part, the subject is so vast, a comprehensive study would require pages... [Read more of this review]
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