Bonsai Articles
Surinam Cherry
Surinam Cherry is a hardy shrub known for its fruit
Surinam Cherry, also known as Brazilian cherry, Cayenne cherry or Florida cherry, is a shrub that grows to a height of 25 ft. The shrub is known for its slender branches and aromatic foliage. The leaves change color as they age – from a bronze when they are young to a deep green when they are slightly old. During strong winters, the leaves turn red.
The flowers are long-stalked and borne either singly or in clusters of four ...
Japanese White Pine
Japanese White Pine is dense and conical
The Japanese White Pine has a dense and conical form when it is young. However, later it develops into a tree with a graceful, irregular shape, which is 25 to 50 feet tall.
Its needles are between 1 and 2.5 inches long, and grow in groups of five, giving it the name of five-needle pine.
The cones are between 1 and 4 inches long and are brownish-red. They last on the tree for 6 to 7 years. This tree belongs to the Pinaceae family, and ...
Japanese Wisteria
Japanese Wisteria is a hardy, ornamental vine
The Japanese Wisteria is a popular ornamental vine that is tough and hardy and forms thickets in which little else can grow. It can climb trees and shrubs to a height of 20 meters. Often, it constricts the stems of trees and kills them by girdling. Its stout, white-barked stem is woody and grows up to 16 cm in diameter.
Wisteria twines clock-wise round its host and has compound leaves that are 20-30 cm long and have 13 to 19 leaf ...
Juniper bonsai
Juniper bonsai is easy to pinch and train
Junipers are an evergreen coniferous shrub found extensively in dry forests and mountains across the world. Their leaves are needle-like at first and become scaly as the tree matures. The foliage is blue-green to light green with occasional shades of silver. There are over 50 species of Juniper but the most popular Juniper Bonsais are found in Japan.
Some of the Junipers live for 200 years though there are others that die within two ...
Lavender Star Flower
Lavender Star Flower can survive in any climate
The Lavender Star Flower, which is native to Australia and Africa, is a hardy plant that survives in all kinds of habitats including dry desert, coastal dunes, mountain forests, wooded grasslands or rocky terrain.
This multi-stemmed tree, which is now found world-wide, grows up to a height of 3 meters. Though deciduous, it can remain evergreen under favorable conditions. The leaves are slightly tapering, dark green, and shiny b ...
Ligustrum
Ligustrum makes the best hedges
Ligustrum is a small, evergreen shrub that is used for making hedges that are popularly known as privet hedges. It is native to Japan, Korea and China, though now it is common in the Southern and Western parts of the United States. It has white flowers in the summer and small blue-black berries in the fall, some of which have medicinal qualities.
Different species of this plant make good landscape plants. They look especially good when cluste ...
Mount Fuji Serissa
Mount Fuji Serissa needs careful handling
Mount Fuji Serissa is a small shrub whose gnarled trunk and tiny leaves make it a popular bonsai. The shrub flowers twice or thrice a year and requires careful handling. The leaves fall off if there is too much or too little water; they also fall off if it is too hot or cold. There is a similar reaction if the plant is moved or if there is a change in light conditions.
The flowers usually drop off in one or two days, followed by the l ...
Okinawa Holly
Okinawa Holly can be shaped easily
Okinawa Holly is an ornamental tree whose green, serrated leaves make it a good bonsai candidate The Holly is native to the northern hemisphere, and flowers in spring and summer. The flowers are pink in color while the leaves are glossy green and toothed. It grows well in semi-shade, is easy to grow indoors, and is a favorite among bonsai lovers.
This plant needs a lot of water particularly before the fruit bearing period; otherwise the ber ...
Orange Jasmine
Orange Jasmine has a lovely fragrance
The Orange Jasmine is a large multi-trunked shrub or small tree. It is also known as the China Box and belongs to the Rutaceae or Rue family. The fragrant ‘orange blossom’ flowers stand out against the evergreen dark green leaves which are made of three to nine leaflets.
This evergreen shrub flowers at intervals throughout the year, and produces fragrant jasmine-scented flowers and striking bright orange to red fruit. It makes an outstan ...
Oriental Ficus Coiled
Oriental Ficus Coiled is most suited for bonsai training
Oriental Ficus Coiled, which is an evergreen tree with a strong trunk and shiny leaves, belongs to the fig family. It is indigenous to South and South-East Asia and is primarily a tropical plant. It is a preferred variety for bonsai training because of features like knotty roots, good branching, and its positive response to indoor conditions. The exposed roots and the strength of the trunk give it an ancient look.
It ne ...
Shimpaku Juniper
Thanks to bonsai lovers, Shimpaku Juniper faces extinction threat,
Shimpaku Juniper, which is popularly known as "The Smoke of the Volcano" due to its powerful swirling trunk, was discovered barely a century ago. But in this period it has literally been stripped from its natural surroundings and planted in homes as bonsais. In fact, such has been the craze for this Japanese plant that today it faces extinction on most of the islands where it grew.
This Juniper grows two feet ...
Snowbush
Snowbush is a shrub whose leaves are prettier than flowers
Snowbush is a rounded tropical shrub that is 5 to 8 feet tall and 4 to 7 feet wide. It has highly colored foliage that makes it a favorite with gardeners. The stems are bright red, while the papery, variegated leaves are rose, white and green. Since the leaves look like flowers, the plant is commonly called leaf flower.
Snowbush can be used as a hedge or as a shrub border and can also be grown indoors. If it is not p ...
Starting Your Bonsai Hobby
Are you at all creative? I think that most of us are, however, due to the ever increasing fast life style today we simply do not have much time to do the things we like that are creative.
It is said that our brain is divided into two sides, at least as far as the aspect of thinking.
I have also read that the right side of the brain is the creative side while the left acts as always the more dominate side, and will try to control everything you try to think of during any day.
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