Bonsai Trees

Bonsai trees are special miniture trees that grow indoors (usually) in pots. Bonsai is japanese for 'potted plant' and originated in China. they are absolutely gorgeous, the idea of having an entire tree on your windowsil amazes me till today, they grow like trees for years and years, there are several styles and types of bonsai: The formal upright style, or Chokkan, is just as the name suggests, and is characterized by a straight, upright, tapering trunk. The trunk and branches of the informal upright, or Moyogi, may incorporate pronounced bends and curves, but the apex of the informal upright is always located directly over the roots. Mr Myagi ...  Read the complete review

Bonsai trees are fascinating and they take years to grow. They are stunted trees that grow in a shallow pot. ‘Bon’ is Japanese for shallow pot and ‘Sai’ is a plant, hence the name. In Japan Bonsai trees are a recognised art form and they are becoming a popular hobby over here in the UK. You can train them to have slanted trunks by tying wire around them and weighting them down to make the trunks bend and even double trunks if you nip the growth at the right time so that the trunk splits. This is a bit out of my league at present but I will have a go one day but for now I will stick to the simple versions. I became ...  Read the complete review

Bonsai trees have long been a passion of mine. I started growing them several years ago, and have since built up a large collection of a variety of species of Bonsai. This is probably going to be the longest most informative review I have ever written as I am going to try to cover EVERY single area of Bonsai I know about and more I have researched for this purpose. ~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~ THE MEANING OF BONSAI ~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~:#:~ Most people know very little about bonsai and its meaning. Bonsai is a Japanese word that is used to describe any tree or shrub ...  Read the complete review

I wasn't quite sure where exactly to put this opinion, but I saw another one about houseplants in this section so I guess this will have to do. So, Bonsai trees, I love em. Well actually I've only got one, so I'm no kind of expert on the matter but it does make a good houseplant. I've had it for a while now and haven't managed to kill it (so they must be robust) and it adds a bit (ok, the only bit) of colour to my room. Bonsai trees are like no other plant in your house, and its not just the fact that they are trees that makes them different. I don't know what it is about them that I like, but ever since I saw the Karate Kid ...  Read the complete review

Bonsai trees can range in prices from just a few pounds up to hundreds but there is no need to pay these prices. Any tree can be 'bonsaied' and its not hard to do. It is simply a matter of dwarfing a tree and keeping control of its shape as it ages. Take a young tree and place in a small pot that restricts the root growth. If the roots creep through the drainage holes you simply cut them off. You can train the branches to twist and turn by using wires. Some trees take more easily to this than others. The flowering cherry is one of the easiest. I recently started training a larch tree that had seeded itself in my garden. It lives in its pot but I ...  Read the complete review