Bonsai on a budget
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Bonsai is a hobby which can be practiced in many different ways and with very different expenditure of money. Even pupils and students with a small allowance can practice this fascinating hobby. Learn how to grow Bonsai trees on a tight budget; low cost bonsai!
Bonsai Pots
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The pot is an important component of the Bonsai. Its significance and its part of the impression of the overall picture must not be underestimated.
Super Mini Bonsai
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As we all know, the basic concept in Bonsai is to make a mature tree in small size; so the smaller the Bonsai is, the more difficult to make.
Bonsai trunk fusion
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Trunk fusions are a grafting technique that use multiple approach grafts of seedlings or rooted cuttings to create a large base trunk with a dramatic even taper in a relatively short time frame.
The use of virtuals in Bonsai design
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Every Bonsai artist whether professional or recreational, creates an image in one’s mind to design and shape the tree in front of them. In most cases this image is of a finished tree in its mature and final state.
Creating a Bonsai stand
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What is a Bonsai stand or "dai" to the enthusiast? When a Bonsai artist is going to show a tree, it needs to be presented on a stand.
Master the art of Bonsai
Master the art of Bonsai
Online Bonsai Courses Learn from leading Bonsai experts at your own pace, from the comfort of your living room!Photographing Bonsai trees
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I am asked many times how to make decent photographs of Bonsai.
Large Trident Maple Bonsai
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Although Bonsai is the art of growing miniature trees, I have always been fascinated by Bonsai that are on the large side. Shohin and Chuhin size Bonsai do very little for me.
Working the trunk of a Bonsai
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The title being a given, the question that quickly arises is; “What makes a trunk great?” and only marginally second comes the question: “How do we create a great trunk?”.
Clip and Grow technique
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Lingnan Penjing artists prune trees with the “Clip and Grow” method. By using this pruning method, Penjing artists do not use much, if any, of the wiring technique when training and styling their trees, but simply keep clipping the branches as they grow.
Synergy of miniature landscapes
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"Bonsai" is a term for the Japanese art of designing dwarfed trees in shallow containers. "Penjing" is the older Chinese form that often has wilder-looking trees and landscapes in pots. These two are the most common forms of what we call magical miniature landscapes, a group of arts that are philosophically-related. When examined closely, this particular group of creations can also be seen as related to some other human endeavors.
Yamadori: Shohin Bonsai
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Ones first image when thinking of ‘yamadori’ Bonsai is of a large tree discovered in the mountains with an ancient twisted trunk, shari and jin and beautiful cultivated foliage.