If you are looking for a way to try to bring nature to your home, you're definitely trying to be involved in a bonsai tree. Bonsai trees are beautiful and add a refreshing feeling of a room. Make it look fun and they also make great gifts.

A refreshing

Have you ever noticed how outdoor in the woods can be refreshing? The trees not only a great source of oxygen, but can also feel comfortable and relaxed. As can be extremely difficult to build your house around an existing tree, the best way to bring out is to have a bonsai.

A bonsai tree is a unique beauty. It 's almost like taking your favorite tree that you like under the seats and shrink small enough to put on the table. Growing your shopping for the perfect bonsai tree, you can remember what your favorite tree to be grown to enjoy.

Bonsai Care

The beauty of a bonsai tree often depends on how well you took care of. Often, you can grow a bonsai tree and with careful pruning, have a unique shape. Some view it as an art form.

The care of the trees here are based on some simple methods that are relatively well known by gardening enthusiasts. In fact, some of the methods the same care for other common plants and trees that grow in your garden. If you are an avid gardener, half your battle is already won. You just need to build on your gardening basics and know the special care for bonsai trees.

The plant is really a bonsai tree or plant in a pot. Therefore, the care of bonsai would be mainly on the concept of the vessel itself. This would refer to conservation of miniaturization and the beauty of the plant. And when it comes to miniaturization, which translates the command from the shape and size of the structure, the main method is pruning.

Pruning is a common method of bonsai care. Pruning literally means trimming and cutting are two things that covers the leaves and root. In principle why this happened because the leaves and roots are the most active plant growth, and to prevent the extensive growth, you always have to cut these parts. Apart from that, it would be another important reason for the care of bonsai trees include the frequency of fertilization, which makes the structure even more beautiful and lush with flowers or fruit.

The perfect gift

A bonsai tree is a great gift. Often when someone is under the weather or if a "Congratulations", people who receive flowers or a potted plant. Flowers and potted plants are too predictable. If someone has a bonsai tree, it would show that you put thought into the gift.

A bonsai tree is a great gift for yourself and others. It is a gift because you like it and I saw that under the supervision continues to grow. You can also create a special dish or container in the bonsai tree to share the gift very special.

Bonsai is the Japanese word for the fruit and vegetable trade, although the origins of bonsai can be traced back to China. Bonsai trees and plants are kept in minimum size, cutting and cutting, for aesthetic purposes. The basic idea behind bonsai trees is to maintain a natural look, but never shows that there is human intervention. Despite the fact that bonsai trees grown in containers, pots or window boxes, will grow by no less healthy tree in a natural way. The bonsai is kept small, cut from a combination of pot confinement and crown and root. Taking care of bonsai requires commitment, creativity, love for plants and patience. bonsai trees can live inside a decorative eye-catcher will be grown in a living room or office, or they can be left in the garden to give an exotic appearance. The most popular tree for bonsai is the maple. The maple trees are perfect for beginners in the art of bonsai. But they are still around for most bonsai incredible statements. Caring for a bonsai maple is not that hard, just the right amount of sun and water.

The most important method of limiting the size of a bonsai pruning, careful removal of parts of the tree shape and size is the limit. Pruning is essential for the development of bonsai. It 's the main method, as this allows you to control the growth of the bonsai and shape them into desired shape and appearance. This is the art of bonsai, with the main idea of recreating nature in a miniature form. The frequency of pruning bonsai bonsai depends mainly on the size and age. If large branches should be removed from the bonsai, it is best to remove them at the top of Bonsai growing season, which begins in mid-spring to summer. concave cutters should be used during the removal of those great branches of the bonsai.

Taiwan has many large junipers in the mountains, many of which more than 3,000 years, and parts of trees over 4,500 years. "In a very different capabilities and sensitivity, the perfect art binge and breathtakingly beautiful hands of mother nature, encourage and inspire wonder respected.

The tree is just starting to capture the spirit Yue San junipers. Following several years will be full of style Soul "Taiwan high mountain" Juniper. I hope.

Most of us, sooner or later been discouraged look, there is a dead house plant popular or not the best. Perhaps the use of soil has been sterilized to blame.

can destroy the land suitable, either by heat or chemicals, all types of soil-borne parasites: fungi, nematodes, bacteria, insects and weed seeds.

Many common ailments back of the house, plants with pots of soil or pests, the red gum and sucking on the roots, crowns and pear to be contaminated. This prevents water and nutrients to reach the leaves and flowers. These plants may look unhealthy, or want to wither and die. The soil-borne pests that can dry red seeds or cuttings, seedlings or tilt suddenly and cause (so-called damping-off).

Soil treatment may be considered as low-cost insurance that your houseplants have a good chance to develop a closer look, and flowers.

The easiest and most effective way to disinfect floors, pots and heating. Heat treatment at the right temperature and for the right length of time destroys all five main types of parasites, and leaves no lasting toxic residues in soil, as some chemical treatments are occasionally. But be careful to avoid overheating, especially with steam or dry heat. Otherwise, the physical structure of soil can be reduced and excess salt are transferred with the harmful side effects.

Heat sterilization

To heat your soil properly, follow these steps:

Prepare the soil before planting as. Add the sand, peat and other materials you want in the final mix soil. The soil should be loose, free from dirt and rough spots, and just enough moisture for the plant. Not so wet that it sticks together when pressed in your hand.

To be sure (the first time), you must sterilize an in-depth, scattering a handful of oats or ryegrass seed when done mixing the soil. When the seeds pop up after sterilization, and aeration of the soil, we know that somewhere you slipped. Incomplete sterilized soil is often more dangerous than using unsterilized soil. Harmful micro-organisms have less competition and grow faster through the soil and plants to attack.

According Spread the soil from one to three inches deep in a baking pan or wooden dish and bake at 200 degrees for one hour. clay pots, packaging and labels can pot placed on top. You should be sterilized. plastic pots are easily sterilized by washing in hot soapy water. The plan may also be directly placed in pots, and baked as above.

A home canning type pressure cooker can also be used, or the soil can on a grid above the boiling water in a large, covered kettle or wash boiler are provided. If the valve is a pressure cooker for ten pounds of pressure. For three-inch pots of soil temperature for ten minutes, four inches. 15 minutes from six inches to 30 minutes. If the method of boiling water without the pressure of steam two times longer intervals.

After the third heat sterilization mix the ground "careful and water for several days before sowing. Recontaminate Make sure the ground with microscopic parasites, avoiding the soiled surfaces or utensils and diseased plant material.

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The main definition of bonsai as a resource for many in the art and horticulture. There are many myths associated with bonsai. The provision of this confusion, but for fans of the young, but the bad reputation of entertainment for anyone who experienced a majorly in the area. Not genetically dwarf plant a bonsai, and instead almost by cruelty in any way. Since an adequate supply of water, air, light and nutrients, a properly maintained bonsai should survive a full size tree of the same species. The techniques of Bonsai are no more cruel than any other initiative horticulture. And "common belief that bonsai are only a few centimeters in height. This is wrong, although bonsai are small in comparison with their brothers on this enormous size, most over 25 inches high and up to 1 meter height.
For the Japanese, has links with many of the ideals that their society is based. Zen Buddhism came - pastime, people, nature, and change all the elements in this unique mode of thought and expression are intertwined. For now, our life, try bonsai as a hobby, a better understanding and for being with nature and the manner and to enhance our gardens. 

Bonsai from seeds or cuttings to be developed by young trees naturally or stunted trees transplanted into containers. Most bonsai range in height from 5 cm (2 in) 1 meter (3.33 m). Bonsai Keep children and trained by pruning branches and roots, by periodic repotting, by pinching new growth and wiring of outlets and warehouses, which develop into the desired shape.
The bonsai with its container and soil, physically independent from the land of his roots as a separate entity, self-contained, but still part of nature. This is what is meant by the term "heaven and earth in one container. Bonsai tree should be located outside the center, is always a container, it is essential not only for the asymmetry in the visual effect, but the symbolic center point where the sky and earth together, and everything should be this place. Another aesthetic principle is the triangular pattern, common to visual harmony and the interpretation of the relationship by the universal principle (life-giving energy or deity), the artist and the same tree. The tradition that three basic virtues to create a bonsai: shin-zen-bi has the position of truth and beauty needs improvement.

CARE

Watering

With limited space in a bonsai pot, regular attention is needed to ensure the tree is correctly watered. Sun, heat and wind exposure can dry bonsai trees to the point of drought in a short period of time. While some species can handle periods of relative dryness, others require near-constant moisture. Watering too frequently, or allowing the soil to remain soggy, promotes fungal infections and root rot. Free draining soil is used to prevent waterlogging. Deciduous trees are more at risk of dehydration and will wilt as the soil dries out. Evergreen trees, which tend to cope with dry conditions better, do not display signs of the problem until after damage has occurred.

Repotting

Bonsai are repotted and root-pruned at intervals dictated by the vigour and age of each tree. In the case of deciduous trees, this is done as the tree is leaving its dormant period, generally around springtime. Bonsai are often repotted while in development, and less often as they become more mature. This prevents them from becoming pot-bound and encourages the growth of new feeder roots, allowing the tree to absorb moisture more efficiently.

Specimens meant to be developed into bonsai are often placed in "growing boxes", which have a much larger volume of soil per plant than a bonsai pot does. These large boxes allow the roots to grow freely, increasing the vigor of the tree and helping the trunk and branches grow thicker. After using a grow box, the tree may be replanted in a more compact "training box" that helps to create a smaller, denser root mass which can be more easily moved into a final presentation pot.

Tools

Special tools are available for the maintenance of bonsai. The most common tool is the concave cutter (5th from left in picture), a tool designed to prune flush, without leaving a stub. Other tools include branch bending jacks, wire pliers and shears of different proportions for performing detail and rough shaping.

Soil and Fertilization

Akadama soilBonsai soil is usually a loose, fast-draining mix of components, often a base mixture of coarse sand or gravel, fired clay pellets, or expanded shale combined with an organic component such as peat or bark. The inorganic components provide mechanical support for bonsai roots, and—in the case of fired clay materials—also serve to retain moisture. The organic components retain moisture and may release small amounts of nutrients as they decay.

In Japan, bonsai soil mixes based on volcanic clays are common. The volcanic clay has been fired at some point in time to create porous, water-retaining pellets. Varieties such as akadama, or "red ball" soil, and kanuma, a type of yellow pumice used for azaleas and other calcifuges, are used by many bonsai growers. Similar fired clay soil components are extracted or manufactured in other countries around the world, and other soil components like diatomaceous earth can fill a similar purpose in bonsai cultivation.

Opinions about fertilizers and fertilization techniques vary widely among practitioners. Some promote the use of organic fertilizers to augment an essentially inorganic soil mix, while others will use chemical fertilizers freely. Many follow the general rule of little and often, where a dilute fertilizer solution or a small amount of dry fertilizer are applied relatively frequently during the tree's growing season. The flushing effect of regular watering moves unmetabolized fertilizer out of the soil, preventing the potentially toxic build-up of fertilizer ingredients.

Location and overwintering

Bonsai are sometimes marketed or promoted as house plants, but few of the traditional bonsai species can thrive or even survive inside a typical house. The best guideline to identifying a suitable location for a bonsai is its native hardiness. If the bonsai grower can closely replicate the full year's temperatures, relative humidity, and sunlight, the bonsai should do well. In practice, this means that trees from a hardiness zone closely matching the grower's location will generally be the easiest to grow outdoors, and others will require more work or will not be viable at all.

Outdoors

Most bonsai species are outdoor trees and shrubs by nature, and they require temperature, humidity, and sunlight conditions approximating their native climate year round. The skill of the gardener can help plants from outside the local hardiness zone to survive and even thrive, but doing so takes careful watering, shielding of selected bonsai from excessive sunlight or wind, and possibly protection from winter conditions (e.g., through the use of cold boxes or winter greenhouses).

Common bonsai species (particularly those from the Japanese tradition) are temperate climate trees from hardiness zones 7 to 9, and require moderate temperatures, moderate humidity, and full sun in summer with a dormancy period in winter that may need be near freezing. They do not thrive indoors, where the light is generally too dim, and humidity often too low, for them to grow properly. Only in the dormant period can they safely be brought indoors, and even then the plants require cold temperatures, reduced watering, and lighting that approximates the number of hours the sun is visible. Raising the temperature or providing more hours of light than available from natural daylight can cause the bonsai to break dormancy, which often weakens or kills it.

 

Indoors

Tropical and Mediterranean species typically require consistent temperatures close to room temperature, and with correct lighting and humidity many species can be kept indoors all year. Those from cooler climates may benefit from a winter dormancy period, but temperatures need not be dropped as far as for the temperate climate plants and a north-facing windowsill or open window may provide the right conditions for a few winter months.

Cultivation

Bonsai can be created from nearly any perennial woody-stemmed tree or shrub species which produces true branches and remains small through pot confinement with crown and root pruning. Some species are popular as bonsai material because they have characteristics, such as small leaves or needles, that make them appropriate for the compact visual scope of bonsai. 

Sources of Bonsai Material

All bonsai start with a specimen of source material, a plant that the grower wishes to train into bonsai form. Bonsai practice is an unusual form of plant cultivation in that growth from seeds is rarely used to obtain source material. To display the characteristic aged appearance of a bonsai within a reasonable time, the source plant is often partially-grown or mature stock. A specimen may be selected specifically for bonsai aesthetic characteristics it already possesses, such as great natural age for a specimen collected in the wild, or a tapered, scar-free trunk from a nursery specimen. Alternatively, it may be selected for non-aesthetic reasons, such as known hardiness for the grower's local climate or low cost (in the case of collected materials). 

Propagation

While any form of plant propagation could generate bonsai material, a few techniques are favored because they can quickly produce a relatively mature trunk with well-placed branches.

Cuttings. In taking a cutting, part of a growing plant is cut off and placed in a growing medium to develop roots. If the part that is cut off is fairly thick, like a mature branch, it can be grown into an aged-looking bonsai more quickly than can a seed. Unfortunately, thinner and younger cuttings tend to strike roots more easily than thicker or more mature ones. In bonsai propagation, cuttings usually provide source material to be grown for some time before training.

Layering. Layering is a technique in which rooting is encouraged from part of a plant, usually a branch, while it is still attached to the parent plant. After rooting, the branch is removed from the parent and grown as an independent entity. For bonsai, both ground layering and air layering can create a potential bonsai, by transforming a mature branch into the trunk of a new tree. The point at which rooting is encouraged can be close to the location of side branches, so the resulting rooted tree can immediately have a thick trunk and low branches, characteristics that complement bonsai aesthetics. 

Commercial Bonsai Growers

Commercial bonsai growers may use any of the other means of obtaining starter bonsai material, from seed propagation to collecting expeditions, but they generally sell mature specimens that display bonsai aesthetic  qualities already. The grower trains the source specimens to a greater or lesser extent before sale, and the trees may be ready for display as soon as they are bought. Those who purchase commercially-grown bonsai face some challenges, however, particularly of buying from another country. If the purchaser's local climate does not closely match the climate in which the bonsai was created, the plant will have difficulties surviving and thriving. As well, importing living plant material from a foreign source is often closely controlled by customs regulations and may require a license or other special customs arrangement on the buyer's part. If a local commercial bonsai grower does not exist, buying from a distant one may be unsatisfactory. 

Nursery Stock

A  plant nursery is an agricultural operation where (non-bonsai) plants are propagated and grown to usable size. Nursery stock may be available directly from the nursery, or may be sold in a garden centre or similar resale establishment. Nursery stock is usually young but fully viable, and is often potted with sufficient soil to allow plants to survive a season or two before being transplanted into a more permanent location. Because the nursery tree is already pot-conditioned, it can be worked on as a bonsai immediately. The large number of plants that can be viewed in a single visit to a nursery or garden centre allows the buyer to identify plants with better-than-average bonsai characteristics. According to Peter Adams, a nursery visit "offers the opportunity to choose an instant trunk". One issue with nursery stock is that many specimens are shaped into popular  forms, such as the standard or half-standard forms, with several feet of clear trunk rising from the roots. Without branches low on the trunk, it is difficult for a source specimen to be trained as bonsai. 

Collecting

Collecting bonsai is the process of finding suitable bonsai material in its original wild situation, successfully moving it, and replanting it in a container for development as bonsai. Collecting may involve wild materials collected from naturally treed areas, or cultivated specimens found growing in yards and gardens. Mature landscape plants which are being discarded from a building site can provide excellent material for bonsai. In Great Britain, hedgerow trees that have grown for many years but have been continually trimmed down to hedge height provide heavy, gnarled trunks for bonsai growers.

Some regions have plant material that is known for its suitability in form. In North America, for example, the  California Juniper and Sierra Juniper found in the Sierra Mountains, the Penderosa  pine and Rocky Mountain Juniper found in the Rocky Mountains, and the  Bald Cypress found in the swamps of the Everglades. In Western Canada near the Rocky Mountains, wild larch are widely collectible and well-suited to bonsai cultivation.

The benefit of collecting bonsai specimens is that the collected materials can be mature, and will display the natural marks and forms of age, which makes them more suitable for bonsai development than the young plants obtained through nurseries. Some of the difficulties of collecting include getting permission to remove the specimens, and the challenges of keeping a mature tree alive while transplanting it to a bonsai pot.

Techniques

The practice of bonsai development incorporates a number of techniques either unique to bonsai or, if used in other forms of cultivation, applied in unusual ways that are particularly suitable to the bonsai domain. 

Leaf Trimming

This technique involves the selective removal of leaves (for most varieties of deciduous tree) or needles (for coniferous trees and some others) from a bonsai's trunk and branches. A common aesthetic technique in bonsai design is to expose the tree's branches below groups of leaves or needles (sometimes called "pads"). In many species, particularly coniferous ones, this means that leaves or needles projecting below their branches must be trimmed off. For some coniferous varieties, such as spruce, branches carry needles from the trunk to the tip and many of these needles may be trimmed to expose the branch shape and bark. Needle and bud trimming can also be used in coniferous trees to force back-budding or budding on old wood, which may not occur naturally in many conifers. Along with pruning, leaf trimming is the most common activity used for bonsai development and maintenance, and the one that occurs most frequently during the year.

Pruning

The small size of the tree and some dwarfing of foliage result from pruning the trunk, branches, and roots. Pruning is often the first step in transforming a collected plant specimen into a candidate for bonsai. The top part of the trunk may be removed to make the tree more compact. Major and minor branches that conflict with the designer's plan will be removed completely, and others may be shortened to fit within the planned design. Pruning later in the bonsai's life is generally less severe, and may be done for purposes like increasing branch ramification or encouraging growth in non-pruned branches. Although pruning is an important and common bonsai practice, it must be done with care, as improper pruning can weaken or kill trees. Careful pruning throughout the tree's life is necessary, however, to maintain a bonsai's basic design, which can otherwise disappear behind the uncontrolled natural growth of branches and leaves. 

Wiring

Wrapping copper or aluminiium wire around branches and trunks allows the bonsai designer to create the desired general form and make detailed branch and leaf placements. When wire is used on new branches or shoots, it holds the branches in place until they lignify (convert into wood), usually 6–9 months or one growing season for deciduous, but several years for pines (which maintain their branch flexibility through multiple growing seasons). Wires are also used to connect a branch to another object (e.g., another branch, the pot itself) so that tightening the wire applies force to the branch. Some species do not lignify strongly, and some specimens' branches are too stiff or brittle to be bent easily. These cases are not conducive to wiring, and shaping them is accomplished primarily through pruning. 

Clamping

For larger specimens, or species with stiffer wood, bonsai artists also use mechanical devices for shaping trunks and branches. The most common are screw-based clamps, which can straighten or bend a part of the bonsai using much greater force than wiring can supply. To prevent damage to the tree, the clamps are tightened a little at a time and make their changes over a period of months or years. 

Grafting

In this technique, new growing material (typically a bud, branch, or root) is introduced to a prepared area on the trunk or under the bark of the tree. There are two major purposes for grafting in bonsai. First, a number of favorite species do not thrive as bonsai on their natural root stock and their trunks are often grafted onto hardier root stock. Examples include Japanese red maple and Japanese black pine. Second, grafting allows the bonsai artist to add branches (and sometimes roots) where they are needed to improve or complete a bonsai design. There are many applicable grafting techniques, none unique to bonsai, including branch grafting, bud grafting, thread grafting, and others. 

Defoliation

Short-term dwarfing of foliage can be accomplished in certain deciduous bonsai by partial or total defoliation of the plant partway through the growing season. Not all species can survive this technique. In defoliating a healthy tree of a suitable species, most or all of the leaves are removed by clipping partway along each leaf's petiole (the thin stem that connects a leaf to its branch). Petioles later dry up and drop off or are manually removed once dry. The tree responds by producing a fresh crop of leaves. The new leaves are generally much smaller than those from the first crop, sometimes as small as half the length and width. If the bonsai is shown at this time, the smaller leaves contribute greatly to the bonsai esthetic of dwarfing. This change in leaf size is usually not permanent, and the leaves of the following spring will often be the normal size. Defoliation weakens the tree and should not be performed in two consecutive years. 

Deadwood

Bonsai growers use deadwood bonsai techniques called jin and shari to simulate age and maturity in a bonsai. Jin is the term used when the bark from an entire branch is removed to create the impression of a snag of deadwood. Shari denotes stripping bark from areas of the trunk to simulate natural scarring from a broken limb or lightning strike. In addition to stripping bark, this technique may also involve the use of tools to scar the deadwood or to raise its grain, and the application of chemicals (usually lime sulfur) to bleach and preserve the exposed deadwood.

Bonsai  (盆栽 Japanese) is the art of growing trees, or woody plants shaped as trees, in containers. Bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing, but dwarfing more accurately refers to researching and creating cultivars of plant material that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species. Bonsai does not require genetically dwarfed trees, but rather depends on growing small trees from regular stock and seeds. Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation, and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-sized trees.

The purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation (for the viewer) and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (for the grower). By contrast with other plant-related practices, bonsai is not intended for production of food, for medicine, or for creating yard-sized or park-sized landscapes. As a result, the scope of bonsai practice is narrow and focused on long-term cultivation and shaping of one or more small trees in a single container.

'Bonsai' is a Japanese pronunciation of the earlier Chinese term penzai (盆栽). A 'bon' is a tray-like pot typically used in bonsai culture. The word bonsai is sometimes used as an umbrella term for all miniature trees in containers or pots, but this article focuses primarily on bonsai as defined in the Japanese tradition. Similar practices in other cultures include the Chinese tradition of penjing and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese.

HistoryContainer-grown plants, including trees and many other plant types, have a history stretching back at least to the early times of Egyptian culture. Pictorial records from around 4000 BC show trees growing in containers cut into rock. Pharaoh Ramesses III donated gardens consisting of potted olives, date palms, and other plants to hundreds of temples. Pre-Common-Era India used container-grown trees for medicine and food.

The word penzai first appeared in writing in China during the Jin Dynasty, in the period 265AD – 420AD. Over time, the practice developed into new forms in various parts of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. Notably, container-grown trees were popularized in Japan during Heian period, a period of cultural growth when the Japanese experienced and adopted their own versions of many Chinese practices. At this time, the term for dwarf potted trees was "the bowl's tree" (鉢の木, hachi-no-ki), denoting the use of a deep pot. The c.1300 rhymed prose essay, Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape Garden, by the Japanese Zen monk Kokan Shiren, outlines aesthetic principles for bonsai, bonseki, and garden architecture itself.

At first, the Japanese used miniaturized trees grown in containers to decorate their homes and gardens. During the Tokugawa period, landscape gardening attained new importance. Cultivation of plants such as azalea and maples became a pastime of the wealthy. Growing dwarf plants in containers was also popular. Around 1800, the Japanese changed the term they used for this art to their pronunciation of the Chinese penzai with its connotation of a shallower container in which the Japanese could now style small trees.

One of the oldest-known living bonsai trees, considered one of the National Treasures of Japan, is in the Tokyo Imperial Palace collection. A five-needle pine (Pinus pentaphylla var. negishi) known as Sandai-Shogun-No Matsu is documented as having been cared for by Tokugawa Iemitsu. The tree is considered to be at least 500 years old and was first trained as a bonsai by 1610. Older plants have been made more recently into bonsai as well.

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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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 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..

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.

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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