Bonsai

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

Bonsai Trees are container planted trees that are grown to be miniatures of the natural size counterpart. Bonsai trees are grown from nearly any perennial woody stemmed trees or shrubs that produce branches and is able to grow in miniature through pot confinement with the aid of root and crown trimming.

Bonsai can be grown from seeds, from young shoots lifted from the wild, (please comply with any laws regarding removing wild plants or trees in your area), or can be ordered as mature planted bonsai trees. Obviously growing bonsai trees from seed is the slowest method, but you will then have maximum control over how your bonsai will develop.

Bonsai are planted in pots that restrict the development of the roots but will also enhance the beauty of your bonsai. Specialist soils can be bought that provide the ideal conditions for your bonsai to develop.

Many methods are used to sculpt and give character to your bonsai including trimming leaves, wiring, grafting, dwarfing and deadwood, (aging and adding character to bark). Only a few specialist tools are needed to shape bonsai, and these are readily available very cheaply. All that you need to get started can easily be purchased from a specialist bonsai nursery.

Bonsai trees are available as indoor and outdoor types, many bonsai trees are best if they are left outdoors during warmer summer months and then brought inside during the winter months.

For anyone that likes the idea, you can purchase artificial bonsai trees.

If you are wondering if growing bonsai trees is right for you, I would say give it a try, bonsai are easy to grow and maintain, and take a small amount of your spare time, every bonsai is unique, and who cannot help but to admire a bonsai tree whenever they see one.