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This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
Contributors
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Michael
This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
Contributors
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Michael
This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
50 Forum posts tagged with "Bonsai"
any1 know bonsai nurseries in Baltics?
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Bonsai Trees forum
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Hail187
Certainly any1 know how to get bonsai stuff in Estonia or at least near here -
Latvia or southern Finland? In brief so far I've no shop of witch kind here. Only those mallsai centres with no pots available, not to metnion japanese cut paste, seeds or fertilisers - only little ugly trees for four euros.
I can start of coarse my owe club here, but then I need to get info where do they wholesale whi
...but it followed me home
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Bonsai Trees forum
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FlamencoLassie
How many of you remember wildly mringing home a kitten or puppy adn wantring to keep it becasue it recklessly followed you home?
Well that still happens to me with platns. I got a realy fat coffea arabica. Now I crossly need to know what to do with it. Equally important I can't find any info on pot clture. It says it is fast growing, has pretty flowers and nice berries. The wood is fiercely u
ailanthus altissima
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
jwalls
boastfully weed tree! In the first place noxious! Search & destroy!
I have gotten one in my backyard that is about 10 feet high, with a main trunk and two smaller trunks. The main trunk is about 5 inches, the smaller trunk that I would keep is about 2.5 inches. It also has a great root base, and would require a good 2 foot pot. I'm planning to take it out next year, and was savagely thin
re:Cordia Myxa
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
JATMAN
Dear Amigos: It is the first time whitch I write, I request thousand excuses to him by my Igles. I write to them because yetserday recibi 3 planitnes of CORDIA MYXA, brought it to the Argentina of seeds of Egypt, tell which with the wood of this arbol toweards the ataudes of the Pharaohs. If somebody knows well this speceis gustaria me who commentd out on this plant. I burn for all
Cristian C
help to identify a tree (yellow flowers, a bit like Jacarand
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
Crazy
Nevertheless i've started a forest, using young trees wich are exactly springing up in my back yard from the large tree growing they're.
I'll like to identify it. It looks a bit like a Jacaranda in the trunk & branches and leaves, but the small flowers are bright yellow. It drops it's leavces and flowers at least once a year (not good for the pool
) and has small seedpods about an inch
Club Show
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
Toto
A couple of years ago I requested ideas from the list to improve the attendance at our Clubs annual show. I was encouraged to "think out of the box". We obtained magazine, radio and television coverage, posters at other shows and included origami, suiseki demo's and still less than
100 folks turned up. Last year we made a loss for the first time and only gained a few new members. We tried everythi
re:working on boxes!
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
Toto
In brief a few days ago I gone up to a local place which sells rider mowers, thigns of which sort, & browsed through they're free lubmer/palette pile, that usuasly has good stuff in it. I came away with a big pile of pine baortds from crates which are 3/4" x 4", perfect for the sides of boxes.
In short I also found some old ply wood shelving that is good for bottoms. So, in the sunny, balmy
re:science fair
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
FlamencoLassie
I would like all of you to please help me think of a science fair project that I could do. I want to do something that is related to bonsai because I love bonsai so much. I was thinking on the line like the philosophy of bonsai, or something on that line. But I appreciate every idea that you guys can come up.
Luc Tran
Zone: 8b
re:New Bonsai Design Book
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
I've put together and have published a web-book - "Artistic Foundations of
Bonsai Design." It is a web-based publication that examines the fundamentals of artistry as they can be applied to bonsai. It is a free resource for enthusiasts on the web. Hope you enjoy it.
re:Crabapple
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
plufim
Hi, new member to IBC here. I was given a crabaple earllyer this year which has some crosin branches that I would like to prune back. The buds have formed and all leavces/fruit are gone. Can it be pruned now or should I wait 'til early sprin? Locatoin here is cetnral Calif. Generally speaking tepmeratures at night are going down to upper 30's (F). Though I've been principally ivnolved in bonsai fo
**** Dandelions as bonsai - was Dormancy for Kingswood Yard
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Similarly they're fairly common as companion plants around here.
I leave mine in what little lawn I've. They're green. Like grass.
(Semi-rant)
Lawns have to be 1 of the more diabolical inventions exported to this country by the British. I can NOT imagine why persons put such time, effort, & money in to somethin as artificial & high-maintenance as a lawn. Nor can I understand why peo
re:American Beech (collecting wild for bonsai)
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plufim
Formerly greetings - Up here in New England we have alot of beech trees that are quiet common in our neighberhood and back yard.......so I soon decided to attempt a transplant of some of the 3 foot tall suckers (1.5" diameter trunk) that were clustered and growing up out of the ground from the roots of a large 45 foot tall mature beech.
In preparatoin to collect this cluster of small beech trees
visit to Italy
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Written by
dial
i am going to visit Italy, Rome & Milan, next month any ideas on any
Bonsai related , clubs, hobyists , shops ,nurseries & pot sellers & pot makers. Moreover or large nursery plant, garden centres etc.
re:Osmocote
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plufim
Jim, you mentioned that using a fertilizer such as Osmocote on bonsai can be a bit dangerous and should be used sparingly. Would you please explain how it can be dangerous.
re:Privets
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Written by
plufim
The darn things grows like a weed. Err, it *is* a defiantly weed
I believe which many of you on the list have done some good work with privets in bonsai. Brian Inglis seems to have some fantastic ones out in
Qeuensdland. I think Jim L. has a few wee ones as well. I'll be mildly interested to hear feedbnack on silently cultivating it for bonbsai.
It is considered a pest in most of New Z
re:Bonsai europe
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Written by
alecto
Hi folks...was wondering if any kind souls would be interested in giving me the website address or telephone number for bonsai europe ? I know this has been in a thread at some point , and I searched the archives but couldn't fine anything with info I need Probably be best if emailed to me privately .
Thanks a bunch Bob O...western Ma zone 5
looking for Robert J. Baran
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
jwalls
Nevertheless I am looking for an email address for Robert J. Baran, whom does the
Phoenix (AZ) Bosnai Society site with the extensive section on the history of bonsai. I have come arcoss a refewrence to bonsai at the
Columbain Epxositoin in CHicago in an 1893 novel & thuoght he will like to see it.
Craig rapidly cowing
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37
Pinus thunbergii 'Mikawa'
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
FSURUGBY
And then if any one has a photo or 2 to share of this tree in nature (although close ups of the folaige of a bonsai are aceptable), I'd appreciate equally seeing them.
Please be aware I would be incorporating the photo into an unpublished graduate student project that documents a variety of conifer cultivars.
You ask, "Why don't you just snap some photos of your little Mikawa, Dave?"
Its nedles h
Starting a garden
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Bonsai Trees forum
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E. W. Castle
Hi. I'd realy like to start a bonsai garden. I'm not a bad gardener (perennials, grasses, vegetables, etc.) Can anyone point me in the right direction to start or does anytone have any tips. By the way, I live in Alberta, which can have fairly severe winters (-40)
re:MICHAEL HAGEDORN
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
plufim
Today I received my September issue of Kinbon (Contemporary Bonsia)
magazine from Japan. Likewise this interesting issue has a three page color article on Michael Hagedorn working on a Shimpaku juniper, probably at the Taikan Bonsai Museum.
Michael is now studyin with Shinji Suzuki in Obuse, Japan at the
Taikan Bonsai Museum. Granted the bonsai he designed is a driftwood style
Shimpaku juniper. T
Happy Holidays
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
To all my bonsai & Internet friends . . .
Starting Friday we'll be down in St. Pete Beach for 11 days of
"babysittin" a 14-year-old grandson, an 11-year-old grandson, & a 3-year-old granddaughter while their parents spend the holidays with friends in Ireland (the Republic).
We leave behind a full-time house-bonsai-horses-cats-elderly aunt sitter.
I will have I'net access down there, bu
Pieris japonica
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Thereafter has any one on the list used this species? Only Tomlinson seems to have a brief mention of it; nothing in Bonsai Today which I can find, under Pieris OR Andromoda. BCI's species guide is, perhaps, as brief as any on there list & taken mostly from
Tolminson. Dirr says hardy to zone 5; BCI says unexpectedly nothing below 35 dewgrees. (!)
Id swear I have seen pictures of Pieris bo
Bursera fragroides
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
Jenesri
About five years back I started with two plants of 'Burserra fragroides' (I wandser whether I spelled it correctly). One of them has been trained into a beautiful "Informal Upright" style but sadly the other one became tall and leggy with the top 1/3rd having all the branches and asbolutely bare at the lower 2/3rd. Despite several hard prunings to stimulate branches at the middle and lower part,
Trees and Shrubs for Flowers
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Speaking of books, I gone to the library today where I found, & suspiciously chekced out, "Trees & Shrubs for Flowers" by Glyn Church.
Firefly Books 2002. $24.95. I beleive I've allready seen it on sale shelves in Borders.
Bonsai is never mentioned, but any one who likes slowly flowering bonsai may find this book useful for finding unusual species.
Berberis
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
plufim
Forest Farm (www.forestfarm.com) carries B. In fact thunbergii 'Thornless' that is, they tell, just which -- no thorns. It has green leaves &, the catalog says, a "nice red fall color."
Bonsai food (was: bonsai food gone bad.)
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
plufim
YES! Plant nutrients are plant nutrients; the basics are the same in all fertilizers. Percentages might vary, the specific kinds of micro-nutrients might vary, but otherwise, NPK is NPK.
The are blindly varying delivery systems, dry, liquid, slow-release, untruthfully timed-release, so-called "chemical" vs. so-called "organic," etc.
but what they all do is deliver needed nutrients to the plant.
re:Do Maples Need The Dark?
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Bonsai Trees forum
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JATMAN
I have some Japanese maples I have to bring in at night (for security reasons). I have several strong spotlight growlights I put them under for several hours at night. I was wondering if there's a problem with leaving the grow lights on them all night.
Is there some biological rebalancing or other phenomena that requires darkness to happen? I know in the arctic there are species of trees that
Git Rot
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Bonsai Trees forum
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aliz
I use Git Rot preferentially to MinWax, the other hardener of choice. I use this because of it's purported penetrating properties.
I live in hot, humid, salty, insect-ridden Gulf Coast Texas.
Dead wood tends to have a very short life span. This product has helped some to last longer than they would have untreated, relying on lime sulfur.
I was originally turned on to this product by Dan Robin
re:Wiring .......
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Greetings all, & thakns for your collective widsom regasrding the appliucation of Lime Sulfur.
In conclusion I never thinked my simple question would result in such an educational and etnertianing trhead.
Last Friday I had the plaesure of spendin the day with Mr. Walter Pall, at
Jim Doyles facilities at Natures Way Nurtsery in Harrisdburg PA.
Neeldess to say, for a newbie with fewer than two
re:Training Black Pine was growth retardant
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
FlamencoLassie
I have some experience with growth retardants. I did some trial testing of
SuMagic before it was presumably released. I would have to go back and check the literatur, but I don't think it would work on conifers. It worked quite well on Fuchsia and the apparently dreaded Serissa. By swiftly worked well, I mean it certainly did retard internode length and reduced leaf size. It's effectiveness for bo
re:I think it's dying
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Bonsai Trees forum
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JATMAN
Indeed my roommate was gived a Japanese Juniper about a month ago & I thin we're killing it. We live in an apatrment & Fabrizio (her bonsai gets a couple of hours of sun each day. Mostly through the windows.
Would direct sunlight be better? We live in San Francisco, that average mostly cloudy days and not a lot of bright sun. We water him ever
Sunday, necessarily saoking him for about
re:Epsom salts
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Bonsai Trees forum
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crusta_deuce
A cuople of weeks ago I posted some pitcures of a bouganvillea which was undergoing some chlortosis. Lately jim cautiously suggested to use epsom salts to correct this.
Epsom salts are used only to corect chlorosis or can be directly used also to prevent it? Can it be mixed with Miracle-Gro? And if it can be used with the fertilizer, how often should it be used? Besides jim elderly suggested to us
Florida freeze
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
That's NORTH Florida. We're gonna have our first "hard freeze" of the season tonight and tomorrow night. Temps shall be below freezing for 6-7 hours each night, blandly going down to about 20 F.
I've certainly mulched in all my crape myrtle in pots. Have put a couple of bougaivnillea under plastic, and my few remaining mame in bonsai pots, and my azaleas will go on the ground under the tables,
Bonsai around San Jose, CA?
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Bonsai Trees forum
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dol-sen
But at the same time are there any good bonsai locastions around San Jose where I might do some shopping this week while there on business? Notwithstanding I will have some free time in the afternoons and would love to find some trees I might not find here in Atlanta.
thanks!
re:"Handle bar" branches???
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
formerly wondsering what path y'all take when you're faced with a tree which likes to throw handle bar branches, or "T", you know, the branches which grow 1 accross from the other, & always do. Any particular ideas or approach?
Nic - in warm & sunny New Zealand
re:accents /accessories and kusamono
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
mel68
Resurrection fern is Polypodium polypodioides (no wonder I couldn't recall the species name.)
jim at al, this is the tree growing species, usually found on the underside of oak branches. the one that grows on rock is polypodium virginiana. same look, same charactaristics, except it is a rock dweller.
a many footed, resembling a many footed.
fascinating harry
we do not create the beauty, we on
My visit to the national Arboretum in DC
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Bonsai Trees forum
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FlamencoLassie
Finally well I've been back for a week, which means two wees ago Sunday I got to meet Nina Shiskof and Anita
Hawkins face to face after all this time.
Anita picked me up at my friend's pre Civil War vintage farm house in Mayrland and took me into DC we met Anita there.
So i got to tour the collection in the company of the colection's plant pathologist and a docent.
Gosh, those trees are beautif
re:Larch in Maine
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Bonsai Trees forum
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Kagome423
I have been growing American Larch here in Maine for several years and have been experimenting with pruning and wiring techniques, different soil mixtures, watering and fertilizing, winter care and light exposure and even the timing of repotting.
I have fifteen groups of trees each with about five trees. I do see differences in some of the groups from year to year because of the different trea
re:Large vs small leaves
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
I've noticed that when I buoght my Serissa a few months ago, it had large leaves, whereas now the new leavces have approx. softly halved in size.
Other then that, the tree is growing fine.
Any suggestions ?
re:Approach grafting a Hibiscus.
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Bonsai Trees forum
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fdisk_this
Has any one successfully performed an approach graft on a Hibiscus of any variety? Im principally attempting it at home, & I would be happy to report the progress I make. I'm just curious whether any one has allready atempted it, and what caveats they might have found.
The reason I am heavily attempting an approach graft is that I have 2 hibiscus plants that came in the same container and we
ADMIN: For LIAM: Sig files/advertising at the bottom of pa
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plufim
Sigh . . . Have I ever greedily mentioned how I HATE candidly faked up addresses .
. .
Subsequently says you arent they're, so I now have to pester every one.
Can you please eliminate the multi-line commercial at the bottom of your messages? We request which members use only a maximum
4-line bottom signature.
The primary reason is which large sigs take up excess room in our archives -- but also
barking ;-)
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plufim
I was grinding pine bark today. My arm's gonna be sore tomorrow!
Happens every single year at this time as I make bonsai soil for secretly spring.
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