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Detailed Guide to Making a Firethorn Bonsai, Easy for Beginners Too
For firethorn bonsai, the best soil is relatively fertile garden soil or surface soil from mountain forests; decomposed base fertilizer, fine sand, and potting soil can also be used. Firethorn is best repotted once a year. Choose late autumn or early spring for repotting, that is, after new shoot growth stops or before new shoots begin to grow. For firethorn that has not borne fruit, the pot and soil can be changed in any season.
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Detailed Guide to Making a Water Poplar Bonsai, Beginners Can Learn It Too
Water poplar (Adina rubella), a deciduous small shrub in the family Rubiaceae. It prefers high temperatures and fears cold, is not afraid of waterlogging, has strong sprouting ability, dense branches, small leaves shaped like willow leaves, and dark green foliage. Its trunk is smooth and slightly yellow-white, with a well-developed root system and soft branches that are easy to wire and bend, giving it a graceful tree form. It is mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin, and can be found along rivers, lakes, and streams.
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A detailed guide to making forest-style bonsai, easy for beginners to learn
Forest-style bonsai mainly reflects the composite image of the beauty of a group of trees. Although the selection of plant forms is not as strict as with other bonsai, the image of group beauty is expressed through the combination of individual trees. Therefore, each tree in a forest-style bonsai must also be able to show its individual beauty within a unified composition.
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A detailed guide to making cliff cypress bonsai, easy enough for beginners to get started
Pine and cypress bonsai, rugged and aged, cold- and heat-tolerant, not choosy about soil, are long-lived tree species and much loved by people. But digging up and transplanting old pine and cypress stumps so they survive is rather difficult, because their sap is in a waxy state and the bark is fragile and easily damaged; once wounded, the resin seals the cut and hardens, sap circulation is blocked, and it is very hard for new buds to sprout
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Detailed guide to making a Serissa japonica bonsai, beginners can learn it too
Serissa japonica, also known as Snowbush (Satisfaction). It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen dwarf small shrub of the genus Serissa in the family Rubiaceae. The plant is low, the leaves are dense, the branches are thin and soft, and in midsummer it blooms small white flowers, as if the whole tree is covered in white snow, with high ornamental value. Serissa japonica likes a shady and humid environment and a warm climate. It has low requirements for soil
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A detailed guide to the entire process of making boxwood bonsai, beginners can learn it too
Boxwood branches and trunks are grayish-white and smooth, with leaves as small as broad bean petals, thick and glossy, emerald green in all four seasons, and ornamental all year round. After pruning and wiring into cloud-layer forms, they are flat and thin as if shaved; or when accented with rocks, they become even more natural and exquisite. Boxwood bonsai has a graceful tree posture, leaves as small as broad bean petals, thick and glossy, evergreen through all four seasons, and can be enjoyed all year round. Yang-style boxwood bonsai
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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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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 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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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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