Bonsai for the More Experienced Enthusiasts

This section will attempt to take us into areas of beyond basic bonsai care, survival and wellbeing – into areas where will explore the art and aesthetics of bonsai; displaying bonsai; growing your bonsai; collecting bonai; propagation techniques; ‘exotic bonsai’, an exploration into various bonsai schools, more advanced Bonsai styles, …

Over the years, I have grown many different species as Bonsai, and used a whole host of propagation techniques to build up my collection of species – I have recorded all lot of the study and research in a stand alone database. With a little bit of programming I have now made available part of that database on-line on the web. It has already proved quite a focal point. I shall frequently be releasing more species – as I add suitable photos, and complete some housekeeping and standardisation work on individual species – well up till recently it was a personal reference database – so it does need some tidying up. My species guide can be > found here <

Like the rest of my website this section this section too is evolutionary – so it will be having new items and details added almost weekly – so keep coming back.

Mark D’Cruz

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.