Understanding Bonsai

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Know Your First Step bonsai
We all agree that bonsai is a work of art is very complex. In the make good bonsai, need 2 terms, namely: knowledge of horticulture and natural understanding adequate. Both must be combined with a sense of the creator of art (fine art). Bonsai is an art that never ends, because the object is a living plant that requires good care as a condition to grow and develop throughout his life.
Before we make material into bonsai, we should first design to design. In designing, admittedly not easy, because the design was actually a manifestation of feeling. So be very difficult for us to be able to formulate let alone taught. So how we can start making bonsai? Many experts expressed their opinions on how to make bonsai from the basic stage to the end. Let us not become the standard rules that must be obeyed, but it's better if we can be wise to understand and make it as a rationale and reference only. Learning to make bonsai will be easier if we are to understand the underlying some aspects, namely:

1. Aspect grow and live. Here we must understand how important good care and adequate for our plants that will make bonsai can grow healthily. Without good health we can never do anything. We must understand the overall growth habit; roots, leaves, stems, branches and twigs. Suitable planting media, food (fertilizer) and water is also a mandatory thing we know. Another important thing is to know and understand their natural habitat, it is in connection with the match in which we care for (or low plateau), how much he needs sunlight and wind. Bonsai by type and the same treatments will grow differently according to where he was treated. Weather or natural conditions will also greatly affect its growth.

2. Aspects of natural beauty. Basically make bonsai is to present a beautiful miniature tree in a container or pot with a natural understanding of the basic reference for the beautiful, unique and artistic, phenomenal and others. To understand or create beauty above is not easy, because the necessary observation and deep understanding, not only visually but also taste. For example: If we're looking at a photo of a very beautiful scene in nature, it is pleasing to the eye but of course we also felt something else, let cool, arid, romantic, etc.. The beauty that feels this is due to the creation of a natural composition that causes a natural sense of drama or so affect people's feelings who see. Similarly, when we look at bonsai, other than visual beauty, the soul or aura of these bonsai should also be able to appear or be implied that the feeling of "inner eye" we.

3. Aesthetic aspects of art. The main purpose of achieving aesthetic beauty or art is making a good composition with respect to the 4 basic factors of balance, unity, rhythm, and the center of attention, by combining elements; line, area, color, and texture. In the aesthetic aspects of art making bonsai, very different from us to make a work of art such as paintings, sculptures, etc.. In making a painting or sculpture, the artist simply poured his artistic feelings without the need to calculate the response of the object (canvas, clay etc). Achieving a beautiful aesthetic art in a bonsai is how manufacturers can pour a sense of art in aesthetic wants a true art and can be responded to either by the trees in accordance with the habits of his life. Or conversely how a manufacturer can respond to an excess, the uniqueness of the phenomenon or even the lack of a tree to set up and planted in a pot and made a beautiful bonsai seen and felt good.

4. Aspects of love. This is the most important thing in making bonsai. At the beginning of a start choosing and said it would make a bonsai tree, then at this stage already have a commitment to making your heart will be treating and caring for pohonmya well. Plants are living beings, who always responded to all of our treatment of it, including love.

Mastery of these 4 aspects are not things that only we can get through the theories or books that are available. Experience becomes the most important thing to master that aspect 4. High commitment to put your mind to everything that needs to be understood and handled directly will result in significant experiences that we can make reference. Every person who has expressed love for the art of bonsai, then that person must have a high commitment to want to know, treat and care for bonsainya well.
The steps to make bonsaiRequired several stages of the process of making bonsai. Each stage has a different way. It takes a good ability to achieve maximum results. These steps are;
1.Mengadakan materials. Bonsai materials can be obtained in various ways including: grafting, cuttings, planting of seeds or search for materials in nature. It takes special skills to be able to know or predict the material to be used as a beautiful bonsai. Limitations in their ability to predict the material is a fatal thing and will only produce something for nothing or even tend to damage the natural / environmental.

2. Treating material. Just as a newborn, needs very special care and caution. Similarly, when we are caring for bonsai material. In this stage we can only let the tree grow freely and maintain their health.

3. Creating basic framework. At this stage we probably have to position the tree in accordance with the overall design plan. Lots of things are done, suppose programming roots, branches and twigs make up to change the flow of the main stem. Knowledge of the habits of life of each tree would be very helpful at this stage of making this basic framework.
4. Making bonsai. This is the stage where a bonsai material that already has the basic framework, will be used as bonsai in accordance with design plans that have been determined. Process at this stage is the replacement processes of plant containers or pots that match, direction, maturation, and aging pengkerdilan. At this stage also needs to maintain the basic framework in order not to grow grow beyond what was planned. It is no less important is to create and mangarahkan branches, twigs, branches and children according to plan, reduce the leaf, making the texture of stems, branches and twigs that look old, etc..
5. Maintaining a bonsai. At this stage we have already knew the habits of a bonsai in relation to health, what and when fertilizer should be given, maintenance and replacement of the media, pests, how much needed sunlight and wind, etc.. When I received good care of our bonsai, then there is the response of bonsai will be very amazing. His health will be excellent and stable and significant growth. Over time, process of growing and getting old kept walking. We are required to continue to interact with our bonsai are treated. For example, how we can maintain an existing form, or even cut and add something for the purpose of maximizing the beauty. At this stage usually occurs summit where we can enjoy the beauty of a bonsai as a whole, both visually and beauty of the soul or aura that glows.
Once we know the stages of creating bonsai above, then the question arises. For beginners who have decided to love and be berbonsai begin, which steps should be taken or the respective fields first? If I may suggest, start from the stage that is 5 to enjoy and understand the process of bonsai has become. Know in advance how a bonsai can radiate a sense of beauty is very deep and how a bonsai at present to be enjoyed. Bonsai The more we observe and understand, the more references to the understanding that we can then we can understand how and what our goals berbonsai. The short is understanding how we can start something well without us knowing the real purpose?

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TREATING BONSAI

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A. Watering
In the dry season, bonsai should be watered every day, at morning and evening. Water for flushing to clean water, clean, odorless, and free of salt. Watering is done by two ways. First, pour the water directly to the planting medium. Second, the media bersana pots dipped into the water using the earnings until the water can penetrate and wet planting medium right.

B. Fertilizing
Should be done with the right dose. The frequency of fertilization is recommended once a month with the use of NPK fertilizer and urea. Fertilizer leaves can also be given three times a month.

C. Weeding and Pruning
Weeding done every day. Especially if it looks the weeds (wild plants) in the planting medium. To avoid the weeds are advised to give the moss growing on the surface of the media. Green mosses and functions as a moisture indicator. Trimming stems, branches, twigs, and leaves to form a bonsai bonsai done in accordance with the wishes. Tailored to the needs or in accordance with the conditions of bonsai itself. If the growth of bonsai plants quickly, trimming done once a month. If bonsai slower-growing plants, pruning is done at 2-3 instead

D. Wire Opening
Can be done after the wire was sunk or enter into the trunk, branches, or branches, bonsai. Carried out carefully following the directions windings and should strive not to not cause injury.

E. Repotting
a. media replacement planting and pruning the roots
Should be done if the roots had grown dense. Usually when the bonsai berumus six months or one year from pembuatan.caranya, bonsai is released from the pot, then half of the planting media on rooting menenpel discarded and the other half allowed to remain attached.
b. replacement and layout changes bonsai pot
Done at the time of media replacement planting. Same with replacement planting medium, if the bonsai is growing and the roots fill the pot. Ideally twice a media replacement planting.

F. Pest and Disease Control
Pests are often attacked and reduce the beauty of bonsai plants are brown plant hopper and the caterpillar. How to control by spraying insecticides. Animal maintenance as a dog, cat, or chicken can also be a pest for bonsai plants, namely, claw foot or bonsai until damaged.

Plants for Bonsai

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Plants or trees that will be made into bonsai is a bonsai going. Going to be a bonsai plants taken from nature or from the multiplication of both seeds, cuttings, grafting, okulasai, and Enten. From wherever it came from, the plants in question must have specific criteria. This is because not all types of plants can be shaped into bonsai. If these criteria are met, of course we can get a perfect bonsai.

Criteria Can Plant in Bonsai
Generally, plants in the bonsai will have to meet the criteria as follows:
a. Plant Dikotil
Plants dikotil or apart two general shape of the tree hard and berekambium. The species is the most ideal become bonsai. Monocot crop species (such as coconut and bamboo species) can also dwarfed, but called the true bonsai. Likewise, the kinds of bushes and shrubs. Although could dwarfed, bonsai can not be true.
b. Age length
Ideally, the bonsai is made from long-lived plants. The reason is, bonsai is an art that continues to grow, so the plants need to survive biased tens, even hundreds of years.
c. Hold Life Suffering
Plants that will better dibonsai rain and heat resistant. In addition, also resistant to narrow container conditions and limited. As a bonsai, plants should be used to live on even though the amount of food or nutrients with little root development and a makeshift bar.
d. The shape Indah Alami
Naturally, the tree will dibonsai should have charm or beauty, whether leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruit. The beauty will be more prominent and proportionate after receiving treatment in accordance with the procedures pembonsaian right.
e. Hold Getting Treatment
To get the perfect bonsai, bonsai tree or bakaln should be treated with certain techniques (detraining). Such treatment is actually a form of torture against the plant. Typically, plants that can not stand going to die. Therefore, plants must bear carved, wired, and also pruned at any time.
Examples of plants that can be made of bonsai, the Azalea, Pine, Acid, Ulmus, Citrus, Ficus benjamina, Bougenvill, Buxux, Sianto, etc..

History of Bonsai

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Bonsai is the art of pruning a plant (tree) to grow dwarf, mini, or a midget. Therefore, to obtain a perfect bonsai requires a relatively long time. It also requires creativity, patience, perseverance and love of making the plant as the primary basis in the manufacture and maintenance of bonsai. Bonsai term itself comes from the Mandarin "penzai". In the Japanese language, derived from the word bonsai means potted bill and sai which means the plant. Thus, bonsai can be interpreted as a dwarfed plant and planted in pots. This means dwarf plants, both old pliers that have the rule and other bonsai, but not planted in pots, can not be called bonsai. Conversely, if any plants or trees planted in the pot, but does not have an unbiased criterion bonsai called bonsai. Keep in mind, dwarfed in the art of bonsai has a broad understanding. Each type of plant has different restrictions dwarf. Plants that could be 1 foot tall dwarf categorized, and the height is only 0.5 meters is not included in the dwarf category. Thus, the runt in the art of bonsai is a plant that has a little more performance than the original plant. Therefore, herbaceous plants or shrubs, although the high is less than 1 meter categorized dwarf unbiased. Because the natural habitat is high only about 1 meter.

The term bonsai in Japan appears in Kamakura government (1192-1333) recorded in Srhire Kasuga. At the same time, an illustration of bonsai comes with the famous image of a priest named honen, it describes bonsai Illustration created de4ngan fan satisfaction goals. At that time the trees are collected various locations, such as mountains and a field, then dwarfed and planted in pots.

Although the word "bonsai" comes from Japanese, bonsai art first appeared in China during the reign of Tsin Dynasty (265-420) and the more widespread during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368) many officials, students, and merchants from Japan who brought the art of bonsai is to his country. In Japan, in 1309, this bonsai art began to bloom and much-loved community. Concrete evidence is the number of paintings by the use Takakane Takashima bonsai as its object.

Loa Varigata

Diposkan oleh Mufti Hidayat | 10:21 AM

Hello bonsai fans wherever you are. Hopefully you all in a tranquil state of health. My name Suhendra, owner of Bonsai Star Gallery: http://www.bonsaistar.com. I joined the blogger aims to share experiences and knowledge of bonsai plants. My personal experience would I to be a kind of bonsai plants, because each plant has its own nature and character. First here I want to tell my experience on the type of Loa (ficus glomerata). Loa Loa first discussed varigata, with characteristic pale yellow striped leaves, and green (photo coming soon), a disorder of the ordinary Loa reply leaves only the green color.
Loa Varigata bonsai material I bought in northern Bandung in early 2004. I drove the car with my employees to show the road. Having got home seller bonsai I see there were dozens of small and Mame bonsai. Among them there are some trees have become a great bonsai, while several other trees are still and semi-finished materials. Then we were asked to look into the garden there are bonsai materials planted in the ground and polybag. There are derived from seeds, setekan, hybrid and natural outcome of the game.
In the garden I see one tree, flowering Kaliandar Varigata scarlet flowers clustered as Lagerstroemia, and I want to buy it. But unfortunately my father is no excuse for selling it was the dry season, so it will die when dug from the ground. I was surprised because these trees are as tall as 2 meters and have many children. Why not separate the father of this child and planted in pots or polybags to be sold. I think these trees really good, because it has yellow leaves and green stripes of high contrast combined with dark red flowers are striking, I've never found it on the market of ornamental plants. It's interesting and I think certainly a lot of people who want to buy it.
While talking, this man says Loa varigata have, but its growth can not be fertile. Hearing it just pulled me curious to want to know this varigata Loa tree. Indeed I am happy to collect rare trees, especially rare species that can be contrived bonsai. I see he wrote towards Loa show the tree, planted in polybags and the media have only rice husk, placed amidst the trees loa higher than this, so probably not completely penyiramannya so because the trees blocked high. Sunlight was only subject to no more than 1 hour, and that varigatanya treetops dibagian only just 3 sticks only. While many at the bottom of the tree branches that are not disposed of the green, so that varigatanya defeated by the original, so I think the cause could not be infertile is because the factors above.
After I bought and brought back home, I immediately re-potting media using the following: 1 bg loose soil + humus + 2 bg 1 bg Malang sand. Prior to this mix of media is inserted into the pot, put pot bottom piece to cover the mosquito ram based pot holes. Ram given above coarse sand size - 2-3mm + ram cover mosquitoes, given the coarse sand layer of sand the size - + 1mm, on top of another layer of fat given the cooked lamb mixed with rice husk with 1:1 ratio. Finally after a throw from its stem all the branches of green leaves, and the entire leaf including the varigatanya leaves, just removed it from the polybags Loa and scraped the land mass. Then cut out and discard the roots and root supported-me-big, new varigata loa ditanamlah with the above mixture into a medium pot-me provided it. Once planted and watered well, put in the shade. Then to have out new shoots, which is located somewhere in the sun in the morning approximately 2 hours. After varigatanya leaves out a lot, a new full-dried, and then shoots out green leaves discarded.
The result after 6 months, these trees become fertile, and I began composing it with slenting style. Until now after about 2 years with care and attention, be 80% qualified bonsai. I'll take care of it to perfection, with the aim to later bonsai in the exhibition game.
But one day there bonsai fans from other cities come to our place to see bonsai. And this man was so impressed when I saw this bonsai Loa Varigata , which insisted on buying it. Since I had never experienced conditions like this bonsai enthusiasts father, so I understand the feeling of how if you want to have our hobby goods, especially goods that's good and rare. By forcing receipts handed to me pretty well, and also because I already have a child who comes from where will my transplant was still able to make this type of bonsai again, I finally let go of this bonsai as well (I even felt proud of my own bonsai work of some people yg liked it).
Thus my experience, the way meripotting and bonsai plant going and so, which turned out to be fertile with the media that I created specifically for the tree like water Loa this reply. Hopefully my experience can be useful for pehobi friends bonsai. Thank you for your attention and I'll see you on the next blog, where I will tell my experience about how to plant and care for Black Pine tree (usually pine species).

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Celtic Cinensis 60cm Owner: Rudi Julianto 

Oleh : Rudi Julianto & Will Heart

There is a time in the making of each bonsai in which we have to determine a pattern or a path that would become a role model lines, this pattern will bring the beauty of artistic potential of the full line with the identity of these bonsai material. This is where the talents of the artists involved bonsai, and this is where the theories of bonsai making based on 'textbook' not used, because in finding potential of a bonsai is basically a feeling of involvement is not easy to explain and even too complicated to be taught . Each bonsai is a different material and each offers a lot of possibilities to become a great bonsai, but only a few of these possibilities that have potential and can really bring the artistic beauty. Talents of the senimanlah can find out what's possible, would be a bonsai is how the material was and where lies the beauty of artistic, but still on the pathways in accordance with the character of the tree. This is not a step with his eyes closed, or someone who just guessing. Perletakan from each branch can reach all the possibilities, pieces of stems or branches which could mean a good genie made later, and the decision to focus on the potential to be involved in selecting the material available, although the potential was only slightly visible. There are no theories in the book, the guidelines or any rules that can guide us in the process of making decisions. There is no whisper of words to be learned and applied in finding the true potential of a bonsai, this capability should be out of the soul of a bonsai artist, of talent and creativity of an artist, of course, bonsai and bonsai material itself. Each plant species have differences in treatment response, each has advantages and disadvantages of each offer many design possibilities, which will be the same or not between the trees and the other one. Clearly every tree is different, and each tree offers sepesial character, a very unique possibility in the future, and a strong soul, all waiting for the touch of the bonsai artist to be at raised. Usually a vote bonsai material because he saw that something of the material, or the potential possibilities that are available from the components. This view may or may not be able to meet the standards of a traditional bonsai making, but a bonsai material should not be forced into something that is not desired by the tree itself. This is the most difficult part in the process of determining the decision, see what's on offer and not to project tree will and our thoughts much less force to a will. For example: When someone would make a bonsai material into the pose 'hang', and the tree was going to or allowed to hang position, then let the tree sit 'hang', do we occasionally forced to make something not a tree or enable. Sometimes this will apply to a non-conventional design, such as in the example pictures below, but this is fine as long as the results imply that artistic beauty in the form of a nice visual viewed. Sketch drawings and computer simulations are tools that are good to help us in seeing the possibilities are there of a bonsai material, these facilities can be described in detail to form the desired visual. It is very nice if we could know in advance through simulation whether this branch should have, or plan for how the shape of the leaves, even we can see how if it roughly when the added branches in the here and the others. Recognizing the types and habits of growing bonsai material is very important to us to be creative in a reasonable possibility. For example there is a growing tree species is very fast, have dense foliage, perantingan good. There is also a type of tree bark that has character very strong, the branches and leaves grow on the trunk. Adding a branch on a tree of Ficus benjamina is very realistic, but almost no realistic when we want to add a branch on a tree Black Pine. Of course, grafting and other techniques in the long run can do much to fulfill our will, find the potential in the early stages of bonsai material as we mean in this article was the discovery in the short term, as shown in the following case. Many cases where a manufacturer will have bonsai bonsai material which he had been doing a stalemate to be considered a good tree, the substance pattern is very diverse and confusing, and the choices made can even make a very frustrating, this is because no or have not found the proper design patterns. This is where a flair for finding the talent potential of the tree will be very useful as a means of bring the best possibilities are there on bonsai material. Such as photographs and sketches that we display below in order to describe how the basic principles of recognizing and utilizing what's there and use components that are available to bring the potential of a bonsai material. Finding 'vocal point' in a composition with deep feelings involved, this is where the beginning of everything, then the others just follow the pattern. Of course, many of the potential offered by good in a bonsai materials, bonsai every artist can have in determining the difference, depends on the talent and vision of each, but whatever their choices ultimately determine the final outcome, whether the option is is the best potential and will become a work of artistic bonsai and good views?

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Beringin Korea (Ficus Compacta)

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This impressive broad leaf, trouble-free evergreen has much smaller leaves than the "Ficus Benjamina" and a full compact canopy - multiple trees fused together to form the trunk of this unique Ficus tree. Recommended for home office or dorm in low to high lighting conditions. Very easy care.

Champion Asia Pacific

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Bonsai's victory Santoso (42 years) with the prestigious title Best in Show I in the exhibition ASPAC IX, was not too surprising. At least, Santoso name is already often appears as a champion in many bonsai during this event. And shrimp pine bonsai win this time, it had never been a championship at all. First appeared, instantly win.
A total of 6 (six) included in his bonsai ASPAC this time, the pine and sour shrimp Java, each one, and 4 (four) santigi. In addition to Best in Show, fir shrimp also won Best in Size Extra Large I, in addition to the Best 31 Great Bonsai. While one santiginya, also won Best in Size Medium and Large Bonsai Best 31.
This record more exciting PPBI Sidoarjo branch, where Santoso joined. Santoso addition, other members who got the champion's santigi J. Wenas (Best in Size II) which also won the Big 31 for the other santigi, along with Soelistyosidhi's santigi.
Previously, bonsai collection also Santoso Juara I've got Bonsai Photo Contest in Japan (2005), won second prize Award Ismael Saleh, 10 Great Spirit National Bonsai Exhibition PPBI Sidoarjo (2005), the champion of Cheng Ho's memorial in Semarang, Best in Shoe exhibition national in Ponorogo, and several other championships.
On average, tree species had indeed santigi, but later begin to look again Santoso shrimp pine. This is certainly not out of the trainer who helped her services, namely Sutomo.
Asked before the assessment took place, Santoso admitted that recent development of more advanced bonsai. An increase in quality, many new players emerge. Despite growing controversy over the jury assessment, Santoso not too confusing. He's being remains an important part and happy to participate.
Pharmaceutical businessman based in Sidoarjo is only hope, that the assessment of all bonsai ASPAC conducted by foreign judges, could provide lessons for judges in their own country. Indeed they are not necessarily better, but at least more objective.

Top Bonsai

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Medium, Champion 1 (The Best in Show) Santigi, Totok S., Jombang

Bonsai Champion

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Hokkiantea (Carmona Mycrophylla)
National Exhibition Bonsai and Suiseki Jakarta 2008
 
Dr's Hokianti Bambang Sunyoto, pebonsai origin Bojonegoro, East Java, it's worth thumbs up. The jury is composed of 6 people only give a very good title to the participant number 26, the owner Hokianti.
Glorious achievements at the National Exhibition Bonsai and Suiseki Jakarta dr Bambang 2008 Sunyoto achieved. Hokianti achieved his top position in the middle of a very tight competition among 56 participants. I was so tight, the difference in values obtained by the top 4 is very thin. 'The difference in the 3 digits behind the comma,' said Jongky B Sulistio, chief organizer.