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-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 Proportional

Bonsai Proportional


Bonsai Proportional
Each bonsai enthusiast tends to proportionality of trunks, branches and leaves. The size of the leaves can be reduced in several ways. In the summer you can cut leaves with the specific, sharp scissors, clips of leaves. Sure,it must be strong and healthy tree. New buds will be adorned smaller leaves. For Bonsai will be less stressful if dilute leaves in the branches half at once, while the other half over the two weeks. Before and after dilute leaves the tree does not fertilize and less water at the same time. Until they start running the new buds, you need to have them in the shade.

Bonsai Proportional


Bonsai Proportional

Bonsai Final Form Idea

Bonsai Final Form Idea


Any tree you want to create in Bonsai needs your idea - the idea of the final form. Consider some aesthetic rules. If the two branches grow opposite one another in the same amount of wood in relation to the desired shape, remove one. It also normally cut all the lateral branches that grow vertically or down, or intersected with the timber. The cut is carried out with the concave scissors. The wound will be healed so beautiful and will be less noticeable.
To allow the new shoots of non-developed, the loss of tree form and the branches become too fat. Many of internal branches may die, because the growing energy is directed at the top and external branches. Therefore, we have new shoots regularly cut or removed. How many times do that, depending on the type of tree. Some grows only once in spring, while others all to late fall. How much and how it shortening, depends on the type and the desired shape. New shoots do not cut if we want the new branch and not cut as long as it does not achieve the desired thickness. Regular pruning with good wiring allow diversification and branching, which develop small leaves or needles. Flowering types circumcise only after flowering.

Bonsai Final Form Idea

Care Instructions for Bonsai

Care Instructions for Bonsai


Upbringing and care of the tree over many years are those, who contribute to the maximum value of bonsai. Bonsais, which are a family heritage that are already in the family for five generations or more, is not easy to quantify. There is no "instant" Bonsai, as a matter of us with their specimens, which other names do not deserve, they want to convince in the department stores, flower shops, or even gas stations. Today, in the so-called Bonsai educate virtually all plants, from potted on. Western idea is also room bonsai. But such products are in no way be compared with freshness, with the spirit of the struggle for survival, they have only trees climate with marked seasons.

Care Instructions for Bonsai

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

In the Bonsai World

In the bonsai world ...


In the bonsai world ...
The following pages will lead you in the wonderful world of art, meditation, peace, and to detect new dimensions. When dealing with the bonsai arts you’ll feel time like you have not used, you will intensively perceive seasons, your relationship with nature will have a deeper meaning, in a different way you’ll observe the trees.
Amend the plant to a symbol of life, harmony, peace and balance is the unique experience for body and spirit.

In the bonsai world ...

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

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

Rules For Designing Bonsai

Rules For Designing Bonsai

As in all the arts also in bonsaistic, there are some agreements, guidelines or rules. In essence it is a rule for the worst term for what most bonsai lovers take into account in formulating bonsais, but this is a word that most bonsai lovers also apply. Rules for formulating bonsai are not inflexible and often violate the light of the circumstances, but they are excellent guidelines for the creation of beautiful bonsai and are valuable for any beginner. Rules facilitate our decision what to do and how.
These rules mostly come from Japanese culture of the creation of bonsai and are shaped in the centuries since Bonsai home is in Japan. The rules are analysis of what to do and what does not work in creating bonsai. Almost everyone with the help of compliance with these rules create a decent Bonsai, but it is superior to the products needed natural talent, inspiration and experience, as well as observance the rules.


Rules For Designing Bonsai

Bonsai Forms-Part ll

Stone form

Stone form
This form mimics the tree, which is in the mountains in fight with the wind. Thus tree grows on the rocks, with visible root that go back to the earth. A young plant must be plant in narrow and deep dish. Roots placed in the cracks and cut those that do not go back to basics. Stone of a plant placed in the container, around the lower third of the land of stone installation, the remainder covered by mostly by regular moisture. In 6 to 12 months, strengthened the roots to the stone and moss can be removed.
Appropriate Plants: maple, juniper, pine, spruce...



Cascading form

Cascading form
In this form imitate a tree at the edge of cliffs. The principal feature the trunk or more often reinforced the lower arm, which extends beyond the lower edge of the container. This is achieved through the use of wires, or seizes the property of trees that still grow up and to the light. The container is tilted or in the extreme, on a side, but when the bonsai is already complete, of course, turns it upright again. Because of the balance the plant needs lower and higher container.
Suitable plants: larch, willow, juniper, pine...

Bonsai Tree-How to Start?

Bonsai Tree-How to Start?


The simplest and quickest way is to buy already grown sample. It is also the most expensive. If we want to breed our own bonsai, are very suitable trees from the forest or plantation. It is recommended that you buy a larger number, of instances that do not give up, if our only instance dies. Parenting from seed is not suitable for beginners, because the procedure is time consuming and difficult. However, you must remembered, that the special seeds for bonsai does not exist.

The most favorable period for transplanting young trees from natural habitats is in early spring, when the buds have begun grows, or late autumn, when the vegetative activity take rest. When we find a suitable tree in the wild, the first cut of any superfluous branches, then the tree cautiously emerge in a circle with a diameter of about 30cm, depending on the tree. Damaged root pruned and transplanted the tree as soon as possible. The first transplants performed in the garden or in the larger container so the plant can recover and leave there for at least one year. Even with the forming operations prefer wait. If we planted plant in a container, we have over the winter to ensure, that the roots do not freeze. Therefore, a container buried in the ground with straw or other insulating material.


Bonsai Tree-How to Start?

Bonsai-More than just a plant, it's art

Most bonsai are created from plants that otherwise would grow into towering trees or billowing shrubs. You can purchase bonsai or start your own by digging up a smallish wild tree or a seedling that popped up in your yard. This plant will need its roots pruned before it goes into a pot. The far-reaching roots of wild plants must be untangled and shortened to fit into its pot.
The top of a new bonsai also might need to be cut back to bring it down to bonsai size, which is usually under 4 feet. (Bonsai are classified according to form and size, and the smallest are less than 7 inches high.)


Bonsai trees

To shorten a trunk artistically, cut it back to within a few inches above its desired height. Trim the bark from the portion of trunk above the highest remaining branch, and pare the stub to a taper. Bend the next-highest branch upwards, tying it against the tapered stub, with some padding to prevent the string or wire from marring the branch.
After a few weeks, when the branch can hold the upright position without assistance, remove the ties and cut back the stub, with a sloping cut, to the base of the now-leading branch.


Bonsai trees

Bonsai Size

Most bonsai are created from plants that otherwise would grow into towering trees or billowing shrubs. You can purchase bonsai or start your own by digging up a smallish wild tree or a seedling that popped up in your yard. This plant will need its roots pruned before it goes into a pot. The far-reaching roots of wild plants must be untangled and shortened to fit into its pot.

The top of a new bonsai also might need to be cut back to bring it down to bonsai size, which is usually under 4 feet. (Bonsai are classified according to form and size, and the smallest are less than 7 inches high.)

Bonsai Size

To shorten a trunk artistically, cut it back to within a few inches above its desired height. Trim the bark from the portion of trunk above the highest remaining branch, and pare the stub to a taper. Bend the next-highest branch upwards, tying it against the tapered stub, with some padding to prevent the string or wire from marring the branch.

After a few weeks, when the branch can hold the upright position without assistance, remove the ties and cut back the stub, with a sloping cut, to the base of the now-leading branch.

Bonsai Size

Bonsai trees-Bonsai review

Bonsai began cultivating in China over 1000 years ago. Officers of taoism have believed that natural phenomena such as mountains, trees and rocks in itself have a magic power, which is particularly concentrated in the miniatures.In Japanese means bon shallow container, sai, however, education plants, trees.
Today it is widely known that these are ordinary trees, grown with a special technique of pruning, by keeping the development of the roots ... In bonsai height measured from the beginning of the boom to the top of the crown over one meter, the smallest but not exceeding 15cm. It is because of the amount they spend at the beginning of the role of a house plant. But mostly to trees in natural habitats and must also live. Exceptions are bonsai room.
From experience I know that already grown bonsai is not difficult to spend. The successful training of bonsai tree requires patience and some luck is not superfluous. It also welcomed the advice of experts, even better, of course, their own experiences.


Bonsai review


Bonsai review