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Looking after your Bonsai

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Looking after your Bonsai and training it is a Science and Art all rolled into one. I believe most of us already have the rudimentary skills required to look after and care for our bonsai. If you have been successfully looking after a garden or indoor potted plants you all ready have many of the skills required.

In this section we shall explore some of the techniques, tools and materials you will need to be familiar with to look after and keep your Bonsai healthy and looking well. The Bonsai Species Guide is introduced to help with information on caring for individual species.

Table of Contents

Bonsai Introduced:

What is Bonsai? Introducing: Bonsai Styles, Bonsai Sizes.

Looking after your Bonsai

Basics of Bonsai Care - Watering and feeding, Bonsai Pruning, Training and Shaping and Bonsai Repotting and Root Pruning. Creating your First Bonsai, What Bonsai Tools?, Choosing a Bonsai Pot?, What Bonsai Wire?.

The Experienced:

Advanced Bonsai Styles why are they important? Some Advanced Bonsai Technique including Field Growing, Yamadori Introduced. Bonsai Species Guide – an exploration into Species Suitable for Bonsai.

Beyond Bonsai:

In this section I shall try and explore areas where Bonsai touches in other spheres of life, in healing, in meditation in self discovery and anything my readers would like to explore.

Some bonsai items from my shop
Akadama Regular Grade (6-10mm) x 14 ltr
Regular Grade 6-10 mm Akadama is best suited for medium or larger Bonsai. 14 ltrs
Price: £9.95 more info..
Bonsai Tools - Coir Brush (160mm)
Coco Coir Brush for all those small tyding up jobs, keeping the soil surface debris free
Price: £3.00 more info..
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