Bonsai Articles
- Bonsai articles by Kevin Bailey,
Benches & Display Columns,
Underplanting & Accent Plants
Security, Care, Organic Fertilisers
Feeding, Watering Bonsai
Irrigation, Trees Lost - Lessons Learned, Propagation, Trees From Seed, Cuttings, Layering, Division & Grafting, Projects, Suiseki, Choosing Pot Selection, Bonsai & Computers,
Video & Bonsai, Creating Driftwood, DIY Projects,Unusual Species -
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Bonsai Basics
- What is bonsai? Locating outdoor bonsai? Can I display bonsai inside the house? How often should I water my bonsai? when do I feed my bonsai? What plants to use for bonsai? How, when should I repot my bonsai? What sort of soil should I use? How and when do I prune a bonsai?
How do I wire a bonsai? What books do you recommend for beginners?
What are some good websites on bonsai? -
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Bonsai Display Benches by Kevin Bailey
- A wonderful article on how to design, build and site bonsai benches; siting, materials, planning, wood treatments, construction -
( Added: 3-Jan-2002 Hits: 881)
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Growing Moss - Tip of the Week
- The subject of this edition is Moss...There are hundreds of varieties of moss scattered around the planet. All grow from spores rather than seeds, and they have "feet" rather than roots. To grow, moss must be moist at all times, and if it dries and turns brown, because it grows from spores, it will grow again when the conditions improve. KEYWORDS: How do I grow moss on bonsai? mosses -
( Added: 15-Feb-2002 Hits: 1622)
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Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
- Weyerhauser's outdoor bonsai collection in Seattle, Washingon USA features 50+ trees. Website includes gallery of photographs and info about bonsai history. Curator Dave DeGroot and horticulture, Lecture series, Tours and exhibits -
( Added: 2-Jan-2002 Hits: 1255)
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A Shade of Grey - Ideas about Judging Trees
- Kokufu, recognised by the majority in the Bonsai world as being the grandest of all of the competitions in the Bonsai world has three classes of tree that compete, which loosely translate to large trees, middle size trees and small trees. Now if this were a European... -
( Added: 23-Jun-2002 Hits: 115)
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A shelter from torrential rains
- When I seriously began my study of bonsai in 1996, I found that the torrential rains we sometimes receive during thunderstorms in West Virginia, would wash much of the soil off my newly-potted plants. I decided that I needed a rain shelter to protect them from such rains. -
( Added: 6-Feb-2002 Hits: 191)
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Accent Plants for Bonsai
- Wolfgang Putz's album of accent plantings, kusamono, Aruncus aethysifolius, Carex oshimensis, Corydalis flexulosa, Dryopteris affinus 'crispa', Geranium dalmaticum, Hosta Beistell, "Blue Cadet", Ginko 'Craig', 'Grey Beauty', 'kifukurin ko mame', Hosta 'Masquerade', 'Moegi fukurin akikaze', 'Silberloffel', 'Sparkling Burgundy', Juncus decipiens 'Spiralis'
Luzula ulophylla, Molina caerulea variegata, Ophiopogon planiscarpos 'nigrescens', Pectailis radiata, Rhodohypoxis baurii 'Fred Broome', Rosularia pallida, Sempervivum arachnoideum, 'Hey_Hey'Sisyrhinchium spp. -
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Advanced Techniques - Critique
- There are a number of aspects of bonsai presentation and styling that are worth remembering when considering the quality of a bonsai. -
( Added: 19-Jan-2002 Hits: 270)
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Bonsai Display Columns by Kevin Bailey
- How-to article discusses construction of masonry display stands (monkey poles) for display of bonsai. -
( Added: 3-Jan-2002 Hits: 354)
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Bonsai Growing & Display Benches
- A virtual garden tour with some ideas for growing and display benches. Bonsai Learning Center's Nursery Tour, pedestals, displaying bonsai, benches, Shade house, water tables, ON PAGE 2 - bonsai studio building, greenhouse -
( Added: 5-May-2002 Hits: 387)
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Bonsai Security by Kevin Bailey
- Kevin Bailey's article discusses practices and techniques to reduce the incidence of bonsai theft. KEYWORDS Insurance, cameras, alarms, security, photographic records, physical barriers, hedges, stolen bonsai, robbed, theft, theives, crime -
( Added: 3-Jan-2002 Hits: 237)
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Design for a Rooftop Bonsai Garden
- The images were created to assist in a presentation for funding of a roof top bonsai tree garden here in Hawaii. -
( Added: 1-Sep-2002 Hits: 156)
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Exhibit Visitors Say the Darndest Things!
- Exhibit Visitors Say the Darndest Things! Just finished a one-man show in a mid-sized town. I had to laugh at some of the remarks I overheard: Are these banzais or Ming trees?, This banzai is a fake. The branches are just wired on!...
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( Added: 26-Mar-2002 Hits: 214)
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Growing and transplanting Moss
- Moss is a good insulator from heat, cold, heavy rain, and sudden frost. The lush green cover makes a stunning effect in scale with bonsai. KEYWORDS: Growing mosses, advantages & disadvantages of ~, transplanting ~, propagating ~, spores, -
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