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A Complete Guide to Growing Wisteria Bonsai
Wisteria is a perennial woody climbing plant in the genus Wisteria of the Fabaceae family. The flowers are purple, blooming from April to June, forming drooping racemes, with flat, elongated pod fruits, giving it strong ornamental value. Wisteria prefers warm, humid conditions and sunlight; it is shade-tolerant and drought-tolerant, and favors loose, fertile, well-drained sunny sites, and is averse to strong winds.
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A Detailed Guide to Shaping Methods and Techniques for Chinese Holly Bonsai
Chinese holly, also known as cat's thorn and Chinese holly wintergreen, is an evergreen small tree or shrub of the genus Ilex in the family Aquifoliaceae. The bark is grayish-white and smooth, and the small branches are densely grown and spreading. The leaves are simple and alternate, elliptical-oblong, leathery, with 5 hard spiny teeth, glossy on the surface, and dark green. The flowers are yellow-green and grow in the leaf axils. The drupe is spherical and bright red
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How to cultivate Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta) bonsai? A detailed guide to the method
The wood of the Chinese holly is soft and flexible, and can be used as a substitute for boxwood (Buxus) wood to make various utensils and carved items. Farmers use it as a nose ring for plowing oxen. It should have been a common and commonly used plant in the Yellow River basin during the era of the Classic of Poetry (Shijing). The bark and leaves can be used medicinally, having the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat. The seed is known pharmaceutically as "Shidagonglaozi" (Mahonia seed), and is used in traditional Chinese medicine to tonify the liver and kidneys
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A Detailed Guide to Pruning and Shaping the Ginseng Ficus Bonsai
When shaping a ginseng ficus bonsai, the main effort should go into raising the roots so that they form a suspended, claw-like display. Of course, the branches, trunk and leaves cannot be neglected either, since they are an inseparable whole of a single tree. The branches and leaves are usually shaped in a clearly layered, naturalistic style. Ficus branches are soft and flexible, so the wiring time is longer than for most trees
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Detailed Guide to Propagating Pyracantha Bonsai from Seed: Master the Key Points to Grow Healthy Seedlings
Pyracantha is distributed across China's Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces and regions. The genus contains 10 species in total, 7 of which are native to China, and many fine cultivated varieties have been developed abroad. In summer, under the blazing sun, snow-white flowers bloom in profusion. In a courtyard or indoors
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How to fertilize a firethorn (Pyracantha) bonsai? A detailed guide to the correct method
When the firethorn bears fruit, the whole tree looks like a bright red torch, so calling it "torch fruit" is the most vivid name! The fruit of the torch fruit stays on the tree for a long time, coral-like and covering the whole tree, brilliant and eye-catching; it is an excellent material for fruit-viewing bonsai. When winter comes, it is exactly the time when the fruit of the torch fruit, planted on lawns and dotted in the depths of courtyards, ripens
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How to Fertilize Boxwood Bonsai? Detailed Guide to Fertilizing Methods and Techniques
Boxwood grows slowly and has low fertilizer requirements. Generally, fertilizing 1 to 2 times in spring and applying decomposed cake fertilizer water once in autumn is sufficient. You can spray a very dilute nitrogen fertilizer (urea dilution, 2000 times) on the leaves year-round, but never apply phosphorus or potassium fertilizer. For Chinese boxwood (Buxus sinica var. parvifolia), fertilization should mainly focus on root-area fertilizer
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A Complete Guide to Bonsai Pruning Techniques and Methods
A tree-stump bonsai that has already been shaped by wire training or that has naturally good form will often grow many new branches. To maintain its perfect posture, the bonsai must be pruned regularly; otherwise it will gradually lose its layers, become out of proportion, and its tree form will become disordered. 1. Promptly prune away useless branches
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Detailed Guide to Pruning and Shaping Chinese Holly Bonsai
Gougou, namely Chinese holly, scientific name: Ilex cornuta, also known as cat's thorn, tiger thorn, octagonal thorn, bird's roost, dog-bone thorn, cat's fragrance, mouse tree, etc. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree, with peculiar leaf shapes, bright green and glossy, evergreen all year round, covered with red fruits after autumn, not withering through winter, gorgeous and lovely
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How to fertilize a fernleaf hedge bamboo bonsai? A detailed guide to cultivation and fertilization methods
Potted fernleaf hedge bamboo is suitable for decorating halls, offices or conference rooms and other places, elegant and beautiful. Small potted plants, adorning home bedrooms and studies, small and exquisite, extremely lovely. It relatively prefers a warm and humid climate, likes light, and is also fairly shade-tolerant, not cold-tolerant, and in winter should not go below 5°C
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