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A Detailed Guide to Witch Hazel Propagation Methods: Easily Master the Breeding Techniques
Witch hazel (Hamamelis) has uniquely shaped and fragrant flowers, blooming before the leaves in early spring, with petals like threads, light and graceful, making it an important early-spring flowering nursery plant. It is suitable for specimen planting in garden corners, beside ponds and streams, and at the edges of shrub groupings, and is also a great material for bonsai. Witch hazel's unique petals and graceful tree form attract many people
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How to prune a trident maple bonsai? Master the correct pruning method
The trident maple has a graceful tree form and elegant leaves, with three shallow lobes at the leaf tip, just like a duck's webbed foot, and it is highly ornamental. In early spring, the new leaves first emerge, delicate and emerald green; after autumn arrives, the leaf color turns dark red or old yellow, becoming even more pleasing to the eye. If in late summer and early autumn you remove its old leaves and apply a quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer once, after half a month it will send out fresh tender new leaves
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A illustrated guide to the grafting technique for golden bullet persimmon (Diospyros cathayensis): detailed steps you can master at a glance
The golden bullet persimmon is called "golden bullet" because its fruit turns golden yellow, is oval-shaped, and stays on the tree for a long time, hence the name golden bullet persimmon. Although the golden bullet persimmon bears fruit and also has the scientific name Chinese persimmon (Diospyros cathayensis), its fruit is not edible; the fruit is somewhat toxic and harmful to the body, so
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Detailed Guide to Diospyros cathayensis Seed Sowing: Master the Key Points for Easy Seedling Propagation
Diospyros cathayensis is distributed and cultivated in East China, South China and Central China. Market sales and exhibitions are dominated by Diospyros cathayensis from Sichuan and Hubei. Sichuan Diospyros cathayensis has small leaves and abundant fruit; as long as it reaches the cultivation age, small stumps (small and miniature bonsai) can bear fruit even in pots
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Detailed explanation of the propagation and seedling-raising techniques for Ligustrum quihoui, master the methods to cultivate strong seedlings
Ligustrum quihoui belongs to the Oleaceae family, Ligustrum genus, and is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub. Also known as small-leaf privet and small white wax tree. It is a hedge material in gardens and can serve as rootstock for trees such as osmanthus and lilac. It is vigorous, cold-resistant; strongly suckering; tolerant of pruning. It can be propagated by sowing, cuttings, and division, but sowing propagation is the main method
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How to shape a crape myrtle bonsai? These methods you need to master
The crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) has been an excellent bonsai tree material from ancient times to the present, and is one of the "Eighteen Scholars" of stump bonsai; it is widely used in the Hui and Chuan schools among the traditional eight major stump bonsai schools. The crape myrtle has the characteristic of exposed roots, and the older the tree, the more twisted and strange its roots become, giving it a vigorous, quaint, elegant and eye-catching effect
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Detailed Guide to Propagating Fragrant Wood (Pistacia weinmannifolia) from Cuttings: Easily Master the Propagation Technique
Cuttings, also known as stem cuttings, are a common propagation method for growing plants. You can cut stems, leaves, roots, buds, etc. from certain plants (called cuttings in horticulture), and insert them into soil, sand, or soak them in water. Once roots develop, they can be planted to become independent new plants.
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A detailed guide to the side-grafting technique for pear trees: master the key operation points
For grafting pear rootstock, I use T-shaped budding; for thicker suckers, side grafting or cut grafting can be used. For pear seedlings after transplanting and grafting, because the density in the sowing bed is relatively high, growth is often uneven, so it is best to plant out the grafted half-grown seedlings separately before spring growth the following year.
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How do you bend and shape a mountain pine bonsai? Master these practical techniques
The mountain pine tree is tall and slender, upright and unyielding, found everywhere across the mountains, and is excellent timber for construction. Its fine qualities are known to all. Therefore, bonsai enthusiasts break with conventional styling and seek out unusual, special and bizarre material in pursuit of innovation. In principle, the styling of mountain pine bonsai takes the display of strength and elegance as its theme
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How to care for potted flowers in early winter? Master the relationship between flower planting and weather conditions
How to care for potted flowers in early winter
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