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Detailed guide to rockery bonsai making techniques, easy for beginners to learn too
Indoor rockery bonsai is an artistic display that brings a miniature natural landscape into the home. The ever-changing scenery of an indoor rockery can add natural interest and integrate a landscape environment into the architectural interior. Indoor rockery bonsai is indispensable among the decorative items in some friends' homes
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A detailed guide to making Chinese fringetree bonsai, beginners can easily learn it too
Chinese fringetree bonsai is mainly based on red-flowered Chinese fringetree and white-flowered Chinese fringetree. When sunlight shines on the back of the Chinese fringetree leaves, a wonderful little world immediately lights up. The leaves of Chinese fringetree are like peach blossoms in spring, giving people a sense of vitality; and they are also as elegant and unrestrained as lotus flowers in summer
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A detailed guide to making maple bonsai, easy for beginners to learn
Maple trees are widely found in the wild, and for making bonsai, old stumps or young trees are usually dug up from the mountains and wilds. Maple's new branches are long and flexible, and can be wired into various styles of bonsai. Common ones include the straight-trunk style, slanting-trunk style, curved-trunk style, double-trunk style, and waterside style. Maple styling is mainly based on pruning, with wiring as a supplement. Maple leaves are relatively large
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A detailed guide to making stone bonsai, easy for beginners to learn too
Although green plant bonsai are merely an accent, they complement elegant stones so well, just as naturally as wildflowers and grasses growing at the foot of a mountain or beside a stream. They not only retain a natural feel but also add a touch of elegance and refinement; without the mess and disorder of wild growth, they are even more pleasing to the eye. Stone bonsai
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Detailed steps for making a winter jasmine bonsai, beginners can learn it too
The branches of winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) are thin and supple, with a well-developed root system and strong sprouting ability. It tolerates pruning well, with golden flowers and green calyxes, gorgeous and delightful, making it a good bonsai material. A winter jasmine bonsai has twisted branches and trunks, green trailing vines in the wind, golden flowers dazzling the eyes, full of antique charm. It is an excellent ornamental flower for late winter and early spring. Moreover, winter jasmine has strong branch sprouting ability and tolerates pruning
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How to make a sago palm bonsai, easy enough for beginners to learn
The sago palm is properly named Cycas revoluta, also known as iron-armored pine, phoenix-tail banana and so on. It is an evergreen small tree of the genus Cycas in the family Cycadaceae, and a precious ancient relict plant. The main type cultivated in China is the Cycas revoluta native to the mountains of Fujian. In recent years, Cycas panzhihuaensis from Panzhihua, Sichuan, Cycas siamensis from Yunnan and others have also been introduced and cultivated in various places. The sago palm has a graceful form
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How to Make a Stone Acorus Bonsai, Easy for Beginners to Learn
The elegant sweet flag grass, especially the coin acorus and the tiger-whisker acorus, has a small and lovely plant form, condensing the feel of the countryside into the palm of your hand. Acorus stays green in all four seasons, as green as jade, plain and natural, with a wild and fresh fragrance that refreshes the heart. It is loved not only by literati and refined scholars of past dynasties, but also by ordinary people today who love acorus. The Seven Customs of Jiangnan: playing the guqin
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A detailed guide to making Shangshui stone bonsai, easy for beginners to learn too
Dear readers, no more worrying about the indoor dryness caused by long-term use of air conditioning and heating in winter, which adults and children cannot bear. Because you have a natural humidifier, the Shangshui stone bonsai. A Shangshui stone bonsai is a landscape formed by arranging and combining mountains, stones, grass and trees in a pot, and the material of a Shangshui stone bonsai is landscape bonsai
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Detailed guide to making a five-color lantana bonsai, beginners can easily learn it too
The five-color lantana used for making bonsai can be propagated by cuttings, generally carried out in the growing season. Cut robust one-year-old branches, one section every two nodes, insert them in sandy soil or vermiculite, and keep them under a shade shed, maintaining soil and air moisture. They root in about 40 to 50 days, and can then be divided and potted up
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A detailed guide to making big-leaf boxwood (Euonymus japonicus) bonsai, easy enough for beginners to learn
Boxwood bonsai has a graceful tree posture, with leaves as small as broad beans, thick and glossy, evergreen all year round, and can be enjoyed throughout the year. In the Yang-style boxwood bonsai, the branches and leaves are pruned and trained into cloud-like pads, flat and thin as if shaved, then dotted with rocks, elegant and beautiful as a painting. In spring, when the tender leaves of boxwood first emerge, the whole tree is tender green and very pleasing to the eye. An ancient poem praising boxwood
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