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Help with Indoor Bonsai Trees |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
Indoor bonsai tree care
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Trouble with your tree |
Category: Latest News |
As a full time Bonsai Nursery, Cherry Blossom can offer tuition in Bonsai care and styling at beginner and intermediate levels. Appointments for classes at our premises can usually be made to suit your schedule at a cost of £35 per day, or £20 per half day. We are also available for on-site Bonsai...
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Beginners guide to growing, keeping and buying bonsai |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
If you are new to the art of Bonsai, then probably the best place to pick up information is your local Bonsai Association. Clubs are generally keen to encourage new members to join and take part in activities, and there is usually a wealth of knowledge and experience to be had.
Hobbyist magazin...
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Tree Welfare |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
Probably the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of Bonsai care is the subject of watering.
There are no hard and fast rules governing the amount of water a tree will need because it depends on many factors, such as the tree species, the environment where the tree is kept, and the amount...
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Air Layering |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
This series shows a European Hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus) grown from hedging stock in the ground for approximately 6 years. As can be seen from the photograph to the left, the trunk up to the first branch is fairly un-interesting and straight. The proposed solution to this is to Air Layer the tree to...
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Pruning or re-styling your Bonsai |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
The series below illustrates a styling exercise on a Juniper involving the bending of a heavy branch by means of first splitting it lengthwise, and then binding with raffia, and wiring. Final positioning is achieved by means of a tourniquet, which gives fine control of branch position.
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Re potting your bonsai |
Category: Bonsai Articles & techniques |
This series shows the re-potting of a Chinese Quince.The tree was originally potted in grit and was to be re-potted in a normal Bonsai potting mixture. To see any picture in more detail click on it to view a larger picture.
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