Bonsai

Watching bonsai trees develop and shaping them into amazing sculptures is an absorbing and very rewarding pastime. Growing bonsai isn’t an expensive pastime with only a few specialist tools being required, but a beautiful bonsai tree can be more of a centrepiece in your home than many ornaments can. A bonsai is a true living sculpture.

Bonsai are pot planted trees that are developed to be miniatures of its full sized plant. Bonsai can be grown from nearly any perennial wood stemmed trees and shrubs that produce branches and is able to develop in miniature through container confinement with the assistance from root and crown pruning.

A Bonsai tree can be developed from seeds, from young shoots lifted from the wild, (please have regard for any laws regarding removing wild plants in your region), or can be ordered as ready grown bonsai. Although growing bonsai from seeds is the slowest method, but you do have total control of how your bonsai tree will develop.

Bonsai trees are grown in special bonsai pots that restrict the development of the roots but also enhance the look of your bonsai. Specialist soil mixtures are available that provide the perfect environment for your bonsai to develop.

Many methods are used to sculpt and give unique character to your bonsai including trimming leaves, wiring, grafting on other plants, dwarfing and deadwood, (a process used to age the bark). Few specialist tools are needed to shape bonsai, and these are readily available very cheaply. Everything you require to get started can be easily purchased from a bonsai nursery.

Bonsai can be had as indoor and outdoor varieties, some bonsai trees are improved if left outdoors in the summer and then brought inside in the winter months.

For those that like the idea, but would prefer not get involved in growing bonsai, you can even purchase artificial bonsai.

If you are considering if developing bonsai is for you, I say have a go, bonsai trees are simple to grow and maintain, take very little of your time, every bonsai tree is individual, and who can’t help but to admire a bonsai tree whenever they see one.

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