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How to prune a bamboo fern bonsai? These tips you need to master
The bamboo fern (Bambusa multiplex) has a beautiful clump form, with slender branches that curve and droop like phoenix tail feathers, giving it extremely high ornamental value. It is an excellent landscaping material in the south, often planted in clumps at building corners, road bends, or beside pergolas. It tolerates pruning and can also be planted as a hedge. Pruning a bamboo fern bonsai is relatively simple
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How to fertilize a crape myrtle bonsai? These tips you need to master
After autumn, the crape myrtle should be given a somewhat stronger organic fertilizer as a base fertilizer, but in general, crape myrtle trunks should not be given heavy fertilizer, to prevent the branches from growing excessively. When fertilizing crape myrtle, attention should be paid to the combined application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. During the growing season, apply a decomposed fertilizer once every half month. After each pruning, apply a nitrogen-based fertilizer.
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How to fertilize a golden bullet tree (Diospyros cathayensis) bonsai? These techniques you need to master
The golden bullet tree has hard wood. When the bark of a vigorously growing trunk is damaged and the wood is exposed to sunlight and air, the surface layer can blacken, harden, carbonize and not rot. This phenomenon is rarely seen in other tree species, and this property of the golden bullet tree can be used when carving and shaping the trunk. The golden bullet tree tolerates poor soil; with sufficient fertilizer, the leaves are thick, dark green and glossy.
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How to water a Golden Bullet (Diospyros cathayensis) bonsai? Master the correct watering method
In spring, before the Golden Bullet bonsai buds, control watering and keep the soil on the dry side, so that the leaves do not grow too large and the branches and buds do not stretch out. During the water-control process, the Golden Bullet, as a bonsai tree species, is cherished by bonsai enthusiasts everywhere, not just by local people. The Golden Bullet is widely admired not only for its small, glossy dark-green leaves, fragrant flowers, fine fruit, and black bark with a good trunk
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How to fertilize a ginkgo bonsai? Master these techniques for stronger growth
Ginkgo is a tree species with a very long history, and since ancient times in our country it has been regarded as an excellent choice of material for bonsai. Ginkgo bonsai can be divided into three types: foliage-appreciation, fruit-appreciation and trunk-appreciation. To make a ginkgo bonsai, choose root-sucker seedlings from beneath large ginkgo trees and stalactite branches of ginkgo trees
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How to fertilize stump bonsai? Master these fertilizing techniques
The soil in the pot of a stump bonsai is limited, and therefore so are the nutrients, so attention should be paid to replenishing fertilizer. Because of its artistic quality of showing the large within the small, a stump bonsai must not be fertilized too much or too frequently; you need to grasp the fertilizer concentration and types, and get the fertilizing season right. The three key elements of plant growth nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers
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How to prune a Fukien tea bonsai? Mastering the method is key
Fukien tea (Carmona retusa) is an evergreen small shrub with dense branches, and comes in three types: large-leaf, medium-leaf, and small-leaf. Among them, the small-leaf Fukien tea grows slowly, has small, dark green leaves that are glossy and lovely, a well-developed root system with gnarled, intertwined roots, and an elegant, antique posture that makes it very appealing. Fukien tea has extremely strong growth vigor and is highly tolerant of pruning
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How to water bonsai? Master the correct watering method
Although the hot and scorching season has not yet arrived, for the bonsai experts at Shanghai Botanical Garden, watering bonsai now can no longer be as relatively easy as in spring. As the temperature climbs day by day and early summer arrives, the timing and amount of watering are also gradually increasing. How can you make sure the bonsai at home drink their fill and drink well?
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How to fertilize stump bonsai scientifically? These methods you need to master
The fertilization method for stump bonsai is very important. If too much fertilizer is applied, the branches and leaves grow excessively; if fertilizer is lacking, the branches become thin and weak, the leaves turn yellow, and the plant is prone to pests and diseases. So here are three scientific fertilization methods: First, according to quantity. The amount of fertilizer for stump bonsai should follow the principle of small amounts applied frequently
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How to water azalea bonsai? Master these watering techniques
Generally speaking, it should be managed flexibly according to the season, weather conditions, plant size, dryness or moisture of the potting soil, and growth and development needs. In winter, when temperatures drop, azaleas grow slowly and need less water, so the amount of watering should be appropriately reduced; in spring, when temperatures rise, azaleas bloom and send out new shoots, so water demand increases; in the high-temperature summer season, water whenever the soil dries
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