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Make your own its not as hard as you think. I will take you through a step by step process that will help you create your own bonsai tree that will improve with age and start you off on this fascinating hobby.
Start at make a bonsai
and follow the four links as a guide to help you select, style, wire
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Bonsai means tree in a pot, not a thousand year old tree but one that someone has taken time and an artists eye to style into a pleasing form, one that gives its beholder a sense of age or location, a connection between heaven and earth, a piece of themselves.
You are never too old to start bonsai.
'What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing' Aristotle(384-22bc)
THE KEY AREAS WE WILL COVER ARE:
Feb 19, 2021
Just Started Bonsai
I am just getting into bonsai and thought I should experiment on trees that I dug up in the wooded area behind my house. Here is a Flying Dragon. Since
Jun 07, 2020
First year novice's attempt at a roots over a rock bonsai - Update
This has been such a fun process and I love this tree. I was able to get aerial roots to drop by creating a hot house with PVC pipes and a clear plastic
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Feb 11, 2020
Juniper procumbens nana
I have called this tree Rivier which means river as its trunk moment reminds me of a river flowing almost like a ribbon tree is about 60cm tall and current
Dec 28, 2019
Willow leaf Ficus progression
I'm a new bonsai hobbyist and this is my second purchase. The progress has been steady and it's starting to take shape.
Dec 28, 2019
First year novice's attempt at a roots over a rock bonsai - Follow up picture
The tree was doing great until it got scale and lost all of its leaves. I was able to eradicate them and had to cut the branches back. Its doing very
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Aug 22, 2018
First year novice's attempt at a roots over a rock bonsai - Follow up picture
Here is a follow up picture, showing the other side of my Roots over rock Umbrella Tree bonsai. You can see some root separation.
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Jan 28, 2018
Ficus Benjamina - 2nd Bonsai
Here is my second Bonsai, a Ficus Benjamina that actually had two trunks that I separated. Then it had three distinct apex's that I pulled down two of
Jan 28, 2018
First year novice's attempt at a roots over a rock bonsai
I just started in the hobby and have quickly become addicted to the process. I love the planning, the finding the plant, the sculpting, and the on going
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