Bonsai

Watching bonsai grow and shaping 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 required, but a beautiful bonsai can be more of a statement in your home than many ornaments can. A bonsai tree is a living sculpture.

Bonsai are pot grown trees that are grown to be small versions of the full sized tree. Bonsai trees can be grown from nearly any perennial wood stemmed trees and shrubs that produce branches and is able to grow small through container confinement with the aid of root and crown pruning.

Bonsai trees can be grown from seeds, from young shoots taken from the wild, (please comply with any laws regarding taking wild plants in your region), or can be ordered as mature grown bonsai. Although growing bonsai from seeds is the slowest method, but you will have total control over how your bonsai tree will look.

Bonsai trees are planted in special containers that not only contain root development, but are also designed to further enhance the beauty of your bonsai. Special soil mixtures can be purchased that give you the perfect environment for your bonsai tree to grow in.

Many techniques are employed to shape and give unique character to your bonsai including leaf trimming, wiring, grafting, dwarfing and deadwood, (a process used to age bark). Only a few specialist tools are needed to sculpt bonsai trees, and these are easy to come by cheaply. All that you need to start growing bonsai trees can be easily purchased from a specialist bonsai nursery.

Bonsai trees are available as both indoor and outdoor types, many bonsai trees are improved if left outdoors during warmer summer months and grown inside in the winter.

And for anyone that likes the idea, but doesn’t want to maintain bonsai, you can buy artificial bonsai.

If you wonder if growing bonsai trees is for you, I would say have a go, bonsai trees are simple to grow and maintain, and take very little of your spare time, every bonsai is individual, and who doesn’t admire a bonsai tree whenever they see one.