Guides

What Is A Yamadori Bonsai

Yamadori Bonsai: Unleashing Nature’s Wild Beauty in Your Garden

Explore the alluring world of Yamadori bonsai, where wild trees with untamed shapes and aged character take center stage. Uncover the secrets of collecting and caring for these unique specimens.

The Art of Repotting: A Seasonal Guide for Bonsai Growers

Learn the best times and key steps for repotting bonsai trees in spring, summer, fall and winter to ensure healthy growth.
taking shears to a bonsai tree to cut off branches

Sculpting Miniature Masterpieces: Choosing Ideal Bonsai Pruning Shears

Bonsai shears are essential tools for sculpting miniature trees, discover how the right pair can transform your gardening experience.
bonsai tree with wire on it encircling the branches

Mastering the Delicate Dance: Wiring Your Bonsai to Perfection

Explore the nuances of wiring bonsai trees, from selecting the right materials to mastering application techniques. Unlock the secrets to shaping your living art with precision and care.
Miniature bonsai plant close up and ready to train

Unlock the Secrets of Bonsai Training: When to Start Shaping Beauty

Embark on a journey into the captivating world of bonsai training. Uncover the optimal timing to shape your miniature tree, ensuring its health and aesthetic appeal flourish for generations.

Bonsai Terrarium Care and Management (Space Issues)

How you care for a bonsai terrarium depends on the type of bonsai you’re dealing with. Each type has its level of tolerance for humidity, moisture, and even size constraints. So, to care for a bonsai terrarium, you just need to be mindful of a few simple things. To care for a bonsai terrarium, all…

Bonsai Trees For Beginners: Guide to High Quality Care

You may be surprised to open a gift and find a neatly wrapped bonsai tree, or you simply bought one that looked amazing from your local nursery. Now that you have the bonsai tree you need to start caring for it in the right way, this is the way that many people start losing their…

Complete Beginner Guide to Growing Bonsai From Seeds

The art form of growing and cultivating bonsai is ancient and has been for over 1000 years. For some people, this bonsai growing method scares them as it is a long-term project, and they believe that these unique plants are very hard to maintain.  It is good to grow bonsai from seeds as they grow…

Choosing the Ultimate Bonsai Pot for Beginners

The purpose of creating a bonsai tree is to replicate nature in a small format. If you are planning to make bonsai and have done even the most basic research then I’m sure you know the importance of choosing the right bonsai pot by now. But, how do you do that? Choosing the right bonsai…
taking shears to a bonsai tree to cut off branches

Guide For Growing Healthy, Robust, and Strong Bonsai Trees

The art of having a healthy bonsai tree allows the users to own a plant, which mimics the size, shape, and type of a full-grown tree, to be able to grow in a planter. Bonsai is not just any other decorative planting; it is a form of art that has cultural significance in Japanese and…

Beginner Guide to Optimal Pruning of Bonsai for Growth

Even as a beginner to bonsai, you probably know that a bonsai tree needs a lot of care to maintain its beautiful shape. Scheduled pruning is one of these things. As a beginner to bonsai, it might be quite daunting to figure out how to prune a tree and the right time to do so….

Thriving Indoor Bonsai and How To Extend Their Life

Bonsai are truly amazing pieces of living art. One look at them and you cannot help but be captivated by the artistic genius and tremendous creativity of the miniaturized trees. For someone interested in keeping indoor bonsai, a question may normally arise, how long do indoor bonsai trees live? The life expectancy of a bonsai…