Bonsai gardens offer peace and creativity. You can grow tiny trees in pots, shaping them like forests. Native Indian trees are perfect for this. Peepal, Banyan, and Imli are ideal choices. Use a ...
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Do any of you keep your trees in 100% pumice? - Bonsai Nut
I am brand new to bonsai so I have been mainly studying as opposed to actually working on trees. I only have 2 Junipers I am working on so far. In my studies I find very few people using Eastern Red Cedar as bonsai material. I was wondering why this is since it is almost impossible to look...
Hello fellow nuts! I've been mulling over an idea for a while now and wanted to pitch it here to see whether the bonsai community would think it worthwhile. With the growing interest in the bonsai hobby here in the US, there's been an equally growing crowd of potters as well. Through my...
This Moreton bay fig i bought as pre-bonsai nearly 40 years ago from a bonsai nursery in Jandakot, Western Australia. At the time there was no internet and very little information available so besides repotting and pruning of branches every 5 years it has never been trained with wires. Recently...
The size of drain holes is a major consideration in buying a bonsai pot. Sizes, however, are all over the place, from extremely large to tiny. I've got one 20" by 2" pot with drain holes two inches across. All things being equal, the larger the drain holes, the better, that is especially true for shallower pots. Shallow pots by their nature don't drain as well as a relatively taller pot. As ...