Category: Horticulture
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Rocky Mountain Juniper: No Guts No Glory
(Ok… so I know I was supposed to put up part two of Bonsaication next… but have you ever been so gripped with inspiration you could not resist the impulse to create?? That’s where I found myself on the evening when I was supposed to be finishing the other story – vacations are almost as […]
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part Four
(Yes, bless it all… this is the end.) Continued from Part Three… Recovery: The period of time between activities in which the tree is expending energy on healing and sealing wounds, or on regaining strength post damage. Once a tree has been worked over (especially its roots) leave it alone for several weeks. Water it […]
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part Three
(Popcorn, soda, and a comfortable chair may be required, but should be worth the read.) Continued from Part Two… Stress: The effect of various impacts both intentional and not, on a tree. When stress turns into distress is where you have a problem. Almost everything we do to trees in bonsai horticulture is a form […]
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part Two
(This post is rated PG… seedlings should not read this without parental guidence… Yah I know, keep my day job.) Continued from Part One in this series… Reproduction: The development of fruit, seed pods, or cones on a tree. This usually happens during periods of active growth through to fall. Reproduction for a tree early […]
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part One
If you are reading this you want to learn something about bonsai… sometimes we don’t even know what we are searching for… just something, anything really, which will help us be more successful in keeping our trees alive. Originally this was going to be one huge post, and then my husband rightly pointed out that […]
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Sunshine – It’s elemental my dear Watson…
To make a visually pleasing bonsai is a matter of balance in all things. The pot to the tree, the base to the trunk, the trunk to the main branches, and the main branches to the tertiary branches. To make a great bonsai, to our mind, requires the tree to also tell you a dramatic story of survival against the most hostile […]