Bonsai

Bonsai

Watching bonsai grow and forming them into beautiful living works of art is a fascinating and very rewarding hobby. Growing bonsai trees isn’t an expensive hobby with only a few tools required, but a beautiful bonsai can be more of a statement in your home than many an expensive ornament. A bonsai tree is a living sculpture.

Bonsai Trees are pot planted trees that are grown to be small versions of its natural size plant. Bonsai trees can be grown from nearly any perennial woody stemmed trees and shrubs that grow branches and can develop small through container confinement with the help from crown and root trimming.

Bonsai can be grown from seed, young shoots taken from the countryside, (please comply with any local laws regarding removing wild plants or trees in your region), or can be bought as mature grown bonsai trees. Obviously growing bonsai from seeds is the slowest method, but you do then have total control over how your bonsai will grow.

Bonsai are grown in special bonsai pots that restrict the development of the roots but will also enhance the look of your bonsai. Special soil mixtures are available that give you the perfect conditions for your bonsai to develop.

Many methods are used to sculpt and give character to your bonsai tree including leaf trimming, wiring branches, grafting, short term dwarfing and deadwood, (a method of aging bark). Few specialist tools are needed to shape bonsai trees, and these can easily be purchased for little cost. Everything you require to get started can be easily bought from a bonsai nursery.

Bonsai are available as indoor and outdoor varieties, some bonsai trees are improved if they are left outside during warmer summer months and then grown inside during the winter.

For anyone that likes the idea, but doesn’t want to keep bonsai, you can purchase artificial bonsai trees.

If you are considering if developing bonsai trees is for you, I would say have a go, bonsai are simple to grow and maintain, take a small amount of your spare time, each and every bonsai is unique, and who does not admire a bonsai every time they see one.