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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...
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...
There’s something about growing bonsai trees that makes big problems seem smaller. “That tree to me is not just a lone tree; it’s connected to all the other trees in the world,” said Wayne Atkinson, a ...
al.com: ‘How you get a tree to be 500 years old’: Bonsai artists have a thing for tiny trees
Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a former ...
‘How you get a tree to be 500 years old’: Bonsai artists have a thing for tiny trees
BEAR LAKE — Bear Lake resident Melissa Mikus didn’t realize she had an artistic skill until she tried it. Before starting her Wicked Wire sculpting business creating small bonsai trees out of wire, ...