THICKENING THE TRUNK OF A BONSAI

Bonsai Trees

Bonsai Trees

THICKENING THE TRUNK OF A BONSAI

It often happens that the trunk of a Bonsai looks too thin in relation to the crown and if this occurs you will have to resolve to thickness it.It is the lower branches that determine the thickness of a tree-trunk,so cut them away once the trunk is as thick as you want it.
If you want to thicken only the base of the trunk,start in spring by wrapping a piece of aluminum wire round the trunk just below the surface of the soil.Above the wire the trunk will swell relatively quickly.Remove the wire in the autumn of the same year otherwise it will constrict the tree too much and it might die.

Bonsai Trees

Bonsai Trees

Bonsai Trees

Bonsai Trees

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

BONSAI-THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ART AND TECHNIQUE

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

Bonsai-The complete guide to art and technique

BONSAI FROM THE WILD

Bonsai Tree-Taken at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum


BONSAI FROM THE WILD

Bonsai Tree-Taken at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum


In years gone by many people in Japan used to take themselves off to the mountains in spring to find suitable bonsai,and they often brought home with them some really lovely specimens.
before collecting from the wild you should gain the permission of the landowner if you intend removing any material,and make sure you are up-to-date with information regarding protected species.Your chances of successfully replanting your find will be good if you go collecting at the beginning of spring;plants will not have begun to grow again and so can still tolerate a change of site quite well.Take with you a small spade,a sharp knife or secateurs,a couple of plastic boxes,newspaper and some water.That way you'll be able to dig up your specimen with as much root and soil attached as possible,and be able to wrap it in damp newspaper to stop it drying out and get it home safely.

Bonsai from the wild


Seedlings about 10-20cm high are suitable material and should present no problems for further cultivation as they still have a compact ball of roots and can be taken out of the ground easily.
At home plant your young tree in loose soil in the garden or put it in a large pot with a good drainage layer and a mixture of equal parts peat/sand.
After one or two years the roots should be cut and the tree repotted into a bonsai dish.

Maple Bonsai Tree, Acer campestre

Siting Your Bonsai

Siting Your Bonsai


The conventional bonsai requires a site in the open air.In the garden,on a open balcony,on a patio or roof garden your tree is exposed to the atmospheric conditions-sun,wind and rain-that it needs to remain healthy and develop satisfactorily.
A bonsai may be brought into the house as a decoration only for a few hours a week,a day at the most.Outside,keep your plants raised off the ground as it makes them easier to tend and admire and less at risk from pests or even pets.
The ideal site for your bonsai is a shelf or framework that can be shaded in the summer if necessary and roofed over with a plastic covering in winter.The majority of bonsai species require full sunlight.Only a few sensitive plant species have to be kept slightly shaded.

Siting Your Bonsai


If the sunlight falls on one side only,you must turn your bonsai every few weeks to stop it developing in an unbalanced way.
You can make up for any lack of sunshine-for example,if a balcony is overhung by a roof-by applying artificial light.Natural,or daylight,fluorescent lamps can be used for this purpose.

Siting Your Bonsai

Bonsai-complex watering

Bonsai-complex watering


Bonsai-complex watering
In order not to misunderstandings, already at the beginning I should clarify, that we are talking about native tree species, which means that the trees are belongs outside.
This also adjusts the watering regime, since the only rule for watering is that there are no rules.
Watering
Watering bonsai is a very easy task, but for the following reasons also very difficult. The quantity and frequency of watering depends on several factors, such as: the type of soil, a mixture of soil, container size and weather conditions.
When watered?
There is no general recipe for watering! Normally you should watering bonsai several times a week; a frequency is dependent on temperature and air humidity. It is important to keep soil moist but not wet.

Bonsai-complex watering


How to watering?
You must always water from the top, slightly over the tree crown. Add water so long, that the water came through the drainage holes of container. Never watering during the day, this is to avoid cooling the earth, which is best for the roots and water droplets may also cause burns on the sheets. The best time to water is at the evening, so the tree has all night long, as that absorbs more moisture. The best water for irrigation is rainwater.

Bonsai-complex watering

Bonsai Tree in Apartment ?

Bonsai Tree


Japanese bring Bonsai in the apartment only on special occasions, may be an important visit, and displayed on specially prepared place.
Bonsai is not a house plant. Above all, except on special occasions, it does not belong into apartment. Bonsai is a tree that was planted in a container, except in size, however, is in no way different from their brothers in the nature. How long would larch or beech survived in central heated homes? A week or two maybe, in winter they would be counted an hour ...

Bonsai Tree

Fertilization of Bonsai

Fertilization of Bonsai

Even fertilization of bonsai is very important. In a small container is not much land, and although bonsai most of the time starve to slow growth, they certainly need some food.
In principle we use two types of fertilizers:
-on the basis of nitrogen for leaf growth, adding at the spring and summer
-on the basis of potassium, which promotes the growth of leaves, flowers and fruits, which adding in autumn to strong trunk and branches.
Bonsai fertilizer:
-summer- on 14 days
-winter-1 monthly


Fertilization of Bonsai

Bonsai Education

Bonsai Education

You have to look after the needs of plants, since they are alive, and for its existence needs proper care.
For success in the development of trees is necessary to take into account the natural forms of trees and their growth.
Bonsai will look nicer and more natural, when looking at seedling and take advantage of its strengths; it can not be any force in any situation.
In education, it is important to us represents the fun, relaxation, not competition. Ideally, for every move you make to take time for reflection. Trees grow very slowly so it is necessary in bringing great deal of patience. To make a real visible progress can be expected only a few years.
In urban environments, which lack the natural environment, trees will be issued a secret of its growth, the time and need a clear eye.


Bonsai Education


Bonsai Education

Bonsai Trees Presentation

Bonsai Trees Presentation

Even before the year 1000 found epic from the Sung dynasty, which describe the pun-sai, and offer the treasures of literature on how to build them.
During the period of peace, which we know as the period of Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911), both as pun-sai and pun-ching became a hobby, not only in aristocratic circles, but all the layers of Chinese society.
However, the Chinese were not the one who presented bonsai the art to west. This was done by Japanese for the first time in Paris at the World Fair in 1878, and later in London in 1909.
In Japan they were likely bring by Buddhist monks between the tenth and eleventh centuries. To them represents the sacred objects,' green path to heaven ', from there a link between God and human.
During the Yuan dynasty (1280 - 1368), Japanese government ministers and merchants brought home bonsai as a gift from the Chinese and we know that around the year 1644 Chu Shun-sui, the Chinese official, came on the Japanese before the government Manchu’s and brought with him the whole his collection of literature on education bonsais. It's a substantial knowledge of the arts bonsais was crucial to the expansion of the arts in Japan. This time, Japan has also developed a branch of their art and their bonsai design, which was reserved for the aristocratic classes, Samurai, and has become a hobby for all classes until the end of the last century.


Bonsai Trees Presentation

Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Today's Chinese bonsai “masters” strictly segregated 'pun-sai' and 'pun-ching. For many the word 'pun-jing' represents both forms of bonsais. The word 'pun-sai', consisting of the same characters as the Japanese word 'bonsai' means and the tree planted in a container, and without the province, while the 'pun-ching' means a tree planted in a container with the landscape. The art of pun-ching goes back deep into history in the initial period of Han dynasty, around 206 BC. – 220, when the Chinese artists in the creation of the provinces began to create miniature variants of its famous rock garden. Legend says that the Jiang-feng was endowed with magic power, which has allowed to magic small landscapes on the plate. Provinces were very detailed with the rocks, mountains, trees, rivers, houses, people and animals.
In the same period as that pun-ching, which is still a very popular form in Chinese, also the first record of the arts pun-sai in the Ch'in Dynasty (221 - 206 BC). Ton Guen-ming, a well known poet and high official was tired of government affairs, withdrew to the quiet countryside, where he began cultivating chrysanthemums in pots. This was the beginning of the cultivation of plants in pots, which led to the subsequent zooming trees. Only 200 years later we see in the figures from the T'ang period cypress, plum, or the bamboo all growing in containers.


Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai


Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Bonsai Arts

Bonsai Arts

Bonsai arts have developed in the Far East, where the term represents the harmony between heaven and earth, between man and nature. Its spiritual values derived from the Eastern philosophy of life, which tends to harmony between man and nature - a harmony that is achieved when the apparent sympathy with the procedure fully inclusive growth and development. The best example of this is certainly bringing bonsais.
Fan of bonsais will certainly conscientiously care for their trees and regularly reviewed. Through the re-feel the rhythm of the seasons and nourishes deep within themselves, the power of creation, which establishes and reduced our small trees. Education bonsai requires much care and attention, but us as a prize to give tranquility of thought, and the internal concentration.
Probably there is no man, who would not have been impressed over these perfect small trees which grow in containers and in each of the smallest details, with the exception of height, reminiscent of its larger brothers in the wild. For their education through need a few skills, but will anyone who has some luck in plants, given the great satisfaction in bringing bonsai. Miniature trees were first planted in containers and Chinese Bonsai is still part of Chinese culture. Bonsai has a place in each of the Chinese community, even beyond the borders of China, in places such as Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.


Bonsai Arts

Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

How to get the first tree that will someday become a beautiful tree in a beautiful container? There are several ways. If you have money and just want to have Bonsai at home, you simply buy (watch for the internal and external). Other variants are seedlings from the nurseries, cuttings, seedlings from seeds, and of course, adequate extraction of plants from the wild - yamadori. The tree from the nature is required of course of being transferred somewhere. You can plant in a larger container, miscellaneous materials and forms. It is only to have the container of good drainage holes. Let a more simple way, of course, transplants in the garden or field. This is also a way of sustaining it. Indeed, it is necessary to dig up and plaids but its worth of. Tree may have an initial shape in the box and then after a few years, transplanted in the training tank, and from there into the right bonsai container.


Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum:
Relationships between trunk height and width should be at bonsai tree ratio 1:3 to 1:12, but we steep to the ideal ratio of 1:6, depending mainly on style.
Trunk should be slightly tilted towards viewer, that is achieved the effect of perspective as the observation of the trees in nature (but can not give looks like letter C).
Base of trunk is to be threatened in the roots and give us the feeling that it is firmly anchored
Roots should be evenly spaced around the trunk.
Roots should not be seen directly against viewer.
Top should be inclined to viewer.
Trunk should be uniformly thin, as it rises.
In the formal and the informal upright style should be the top exactly of the base.
In an informal upright style should not be too many "S" curves.
As the tree rises should be the curves closer together.
The tree should have only one peak.


Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Bonsai trees-Greatest Perfection

Bonsai trees-Greatest Perfection

When Bonsai entered the history of mankind, is not precisely known. Obviously, only that it happened in China before the 12th century and then in Japan, where in recent centuries, this art shaped by the greatest perfection. Bonsai interfere even in the religious traditions of Zen Buddhism. It is strongly rooted in the eastern performances of ethical ideal of beauty. In the early 20th century, the Japanese began to export bonsai, the greatest interest in the arts in the world, dominated until the last fifty years.
For many years, dominated by the wrong thinking that the specific types of trees, which is very difficult to cultivate. European tree species grows the same as the Japanese or even tropical. Shape them in different styles, but their size varies from 2 cm to 1 m or more. Given the diversity of plant species and individual plants with detailed instructions and criteria of education can not be determined. The nature is our role model. Imitate the growth of trees in natural habitats in mind symbolic three points, which conceived the outline against irregular triangle shape. The lowest point symbolizes earth, middle man, and the highest heaven. We try to approximate the proportion of 1: 6 between the thickness and height of the tree trunks. So, 30 cm high Bonsai should have a thick trunk of at least 5 cm. Very important is the design and arrangement of visible roots - nebari, that symbolize strength and power.
Bonsai is not just a tree in a container. The tree is alive and must live with you. Leroy Fuji says: "Learn from your trees, they are your reflection!"


Bonsai trees-Greatest Perfection


Bonsai trees-Greatest Perfection

Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

What is Bonsai? For most, this is only BON - container in the SAI - tree. BONSAI in Japanese means tree in a container, which is compared with the trees in the nature of proportional smaller copy. And not only that. Bonsai is an art, collaboration with nature, meditation. We need to know the requirements of the plants in nature; we need to be gardeners, architects and philosophers. Our ally is the time, which can not be overtaken. Rare are the shortcuts on the path of creating. They sometimes get experienced growers and masters, but always with the fear to lose, to destroy lives, a tree, the idea makes sense. The oldest bonsai in Japan are over 600 years old and have the status of the national treasure. Specimens that are transmitted from generation to generation are of inestimable value.


Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

Where to Place Bonsai Tree

Where to Place Bonsai Tree

Where to place the Bonsai
Bonsai are trees, and trees grow in nature. Their place is outside. Even to the so-called “Room Bonsai”, tropical and subtropical species, from spring to autumn, when temperatures are still higher than +10 º C, we have the obligation to the outside.
Light is the addition of water and nutrients basic factor, the article which makes the growth and development of plants. Different types require different conditions. These, however, we need to consider in setting up bonsai. Most must be in the hot summer days, during heat offer partial or full protection of the shade. The sun and the wind very quickly drained soil in a container.
Bonsai on the same site once a week to turn 90 º to allow the harmonious development of crown.
If you want to dismantle Bonsai, you can stand in the exhibition space and keeping only a few days, otherwise will have begun to show signs of deterioration. A week or more in a confined space for a tree can be fatal.


Where to Place Bonsai Tree

Some Bonsai Forms

Upright formal form

Upright formal form
This is the most simple form of bonsai. It has a vertical straight trunk, which is uniformly surrounded by branches, parallel to the ground. Branches have long, shorter towards the top, however, to create a branching conical. Appropriate Plants: maple, beech, hornbeam, spruce.


Upright spontaneous form

Upright spontaneous form
This format is very common in nature and the most appropriate for beginners. Similar is the formal upright form, but the trunk is more or less bent.
Appropriate Plants: maple, birch, beech, hornbeam, apple trees, oak, spruce, pine...


Windward (Sloping) form

Windward (Sloping) form
This is not inclined planted tree, but trees with more or less inclined to one side of timber, where all the branches growing in one direction, such that the tree was exposed to constant winds in the same direction. Plant it at the very edge of the container, branches, however, beyond the opposite edge.
Suitable plants: birch, larch, willow, pine...