Bonsai is not a plant variety, but a way of growing a wide variety of plants. With its help, grow up exact copies of trees in miniature. This art came to us from Japan and in translation means "a tree grown in a bowl" or "a tree that shear".
Indeed, the process of growing bonsai can become a kind of art and even a lifestyle. Cut, transplant and constantly improve the design of the plant - all this you will have to do for many years if you want to achieve a truly beautiful result.
How to grow a bonsai?
The easiest way is to buy ready-made plant seedlings and plant them in prepared dishes. The most important question is what is the best way to grow bonsai? As a coniferous plant, you can use Chinese juniper, larch , cedar, fir, cryptomeria, pine, folded thuja or a pea chrysanthemum.
Of the leaves preferable hornbeam, birch, beech, oak, maple, ash, willow or ficus. Perhaps the cultivation of fruit plants: plum, apple, hawthorn. And to get a flowering tree, take a magnolia, a rose, a henomelis or a narrow-leaved pyracanthus.
In addition to the plants themselves, you will need special tools for pruning and forming a tree. These are special concave cutters for cutting a part of the trunk, scissors-cutting pliers for cutting thick branches, a nail file with a blade length of 15 cm and 2 scissors with sharp and blunt ends.
How much to grow bonsai from seeds?
Grow bonsai with their own hands can and seed. Get ready, that it will take a lot of time. Growing bonsai from the very beginning requires a lot of patience. Some plants can take 5 or more years to complete. Such a hard and long way is possible only for the most patient gardener, tuned to a positive result.
Seeds for bonsai can be found in a botanical garden or in a public park, where beautiful and unique trees grow. However, you can just buy seeds on the Internet or in a store of live plants.
Choosing a style of growing bonsai
You are free to choose how to grow your bonsai at home. This refers to the future shape of the mini-tree. There are many styles of cultivation: broom style, cascade, symmetrical and asymmetrical straight style, group bonsai, literary and dense styles, bonsai growing on stone, semi-cascading and inclined styles, twinned or twisted trunk, weepy bonsai and so on.
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