Bonsai

Watching bonsai grow and shaping them into amazing sculptures is a fascinating and extremely rewarding hobby. Growing bonsai isn’t an expensive hobby with not many tools needed, but a magnificant bonsai can be more of a statement in your home than many an expensive ornament. A bonsai is a living ornament.

Bonsai Trees are pot planted plants or trees that are developed to be small versions of its natural sized tree. Bonsai are created from almost any perennial wood stemmed trees or shrubs that produce branches and is able to grow small through container confinement with the help of crown and root trimming.

A Bonsai tree can be grown from seeds, young shoots lifted from the countryside, (please observe any local laws in respect of taking wild plants in your region), or can be bought as mature planted bonsai trees. Although growing bonsai from seed is the slowest route, but you do then have maximum control over how your bonsai tree will develop.

Bonsai trees are grown in bonsai pots that not only restrict root growth, but are also designed to further enhance the look of your bonsai tree. Specialist soil mixtures are available that provide the perfect environment for your bonsai tree to grow in.

Many methods are employed to shape and give unique character to your bonsai including trimming leaves, wiring branches, grafting, short term dwarfing and deadwood, (a process used to age bark). Not many specialist tools are required to shape bonsai, and these are readily available for little cost. Everything you need to get started can be easily purchased from a specialist bonsai nursery.

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

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

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

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