How To Get Started With Bonsai Trees In A Number Of Simple Steps

| Saturday, February 11, 2012
By Adrien Benson


Tending a bonsai tree will allow those who love greenery to try their hand at turning a bit of nature into a masterpiece of art. Through careful maintenance of leaves, branches and roots, a bonsai tree can be shaped to virtually any style that suits the artist.

There are a few places to begin when you want to learn to grow and tend your own bonsai tree. A pre-designed tree you purchase might be the way to begin with bonsais. These trees are typically five to seven years old and have had their basic shape already tended to by a bonsai tree artist. These trees are easier to take care of than shaping and designing your own tree, but are also more restrictive on what can be done with them. If you don't know how to care for a bonsai tree and don't care to spend a few years grooming and maintaining one, these trees are good to start with.

If you are adventurous, or have owned a bonsai tree previously, you can choose to acquire a young seedling and sculpt your bonsai tree yourself. If you are planning to sculpt your own bonsai tree, there are several things that you will want to remember. Sculpting bonsai trees takes many years of patience. A bonsai tree you buy will likely be from seven years old to fifteen years old so that it has been gradually sculpted into the shape the artist has intended. When you begin sculpting your own tree, you will need to remember that patience is necessary in order to succeed at this art.

A variety of tools are needed to sculpt a bonsai tree. Wire pliers, branch cutters and pruning tools are just among a few of the tools you will need. Most of the tools required for maintaining and growing a bonsai tree can be purchased at most hardware stores or are sold online from stores that specially handle bonsai tree care supplies. People who form their own bonsai tree designs, use tools for grafting and defoliation and are typically only purchased and used by them. In addition to these tools, there are various other tools which are used in basic maintenance of established trees.

Many bonsai trees are only suitable for outdoor growth in ornamental gardens. However, there is a growing popularity in dwarf bonsai, many of which are built from trees that can flourish indoors. Before you spend money on any type of bonsai tree, make sure the climate where you live is one in which your tree can thrive.

The majority of bonsai trees will be developed inside pots with drainage openings which permit leftover moisture from pooling inside the pot and causing root rot. Many gardeners will use mesh around those holes to thwart insects from entering the pot from the bottom and also keep softened soil in the pot. If you are interested in growing bonsai trees, you must make sure that you reside in a healthy region for the forms of trees you want to grow, or concentrate on choosing an indoor strain of bonsai.




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