Bonsai Trees For House And
Garden
By Victor
Epand
What plants, other than
ferns and cut-leaf maples, would you recommend to be
included in a japanese garden? There is a great variety of
plants that could be used in a japanese garden. It depends
on what type of garden you have in mind. Japanese gardens
have evolved from primitive "Tei" gardens, to gardens that
were influenced by the Sung and Tang Dinasties.
These gardens were very sumptuous and depicted dramatic
landscape features. There were also Buddhist gardens that
depicted paradise on earth. Influenced by the tea cerimony
and its aesthetics, the military lords of feudal Japan,
comissioned some very interesting gardens that still exist.
My favorites are the Zen gardens and their simplicity. As
you can see, there are many different types of japanese
gardens, and they could use many different types of plants
and materials.
Most all japanese gardens are use as a place of peace and
quite. A way for the gardener to get out of the world and
just enjoy sometime to themselves and there family. A lot of
gardeners take a lot of pride in there garden. There garden
reflects the way the gardener sees or feels like when they
go out into there garden. A lot of monks and buddhist spend
a lot of time in there gardens cleaning and just enjoying
the great gifts that they were given. They even belive that
if you listen hard enough you can hear the plants talking to
you.
Bonsai refers to the miniaturizing of a plant, but it does
not identify the type of plant that it is. There are
hundreds of different types of bonsai plants. All of the
bonsai plants out there never have the same name, but the
only thing that they do have in common is that they are from
the bonsai family. A complete description of the plant -
leaf dimensions, leaf color, number of stems growing from
the soil, does the stem branch or grow straight, does it
have bark, and any other distinguishing characteristics that
would ID your plant.
There are many types of bonsai trees out there for example:
Madagascar palm bonsai tree, jade bonsai, and azalea bonsai.
Bonsais are rarely easy and nearly always very expensive -
and profitable! Unlike many bonsais, a Jade can survive as a
houseplant. Bonsais are potted in a variety of different
containers of different sizes and shape and with varied soil
compositions.
But not all jade bonsai are
the same. Having good inforamtion on the type of bonsai and
what is need for it is something you can ask where you go
and get your plants from, take inforamtion off the internet,
look at books on bonsais, or you can talk to another
gardener about it.
Azaleas Bonsai are tough to keep because Azaleas do not
tolerate dryness and Bonsais have little soil and small pots
so they dry out quickly. That means you may have to water
your Azalea every day or two, although I cannot be sure of
that without knowing the size and other factors. The
withering that you mentioned is probably due to excessive
soil dryness.
In addition, your Azalea needs at least a few hours of
direct sun every day and it prefers cool temperatures. It
may do better outside in a cool semi-shaded area during the
warmer months. In any case, this is not an easy plant as it
is very unforgiving of any lapses in watering, light or
temperature.
The presence of fungus gnats is a good indication that the
soil is staying too moist and the roots are rotting. The
fungus gnat larvae feed on the decaying roots. I cannot say
just how often your Bonsai should be watered, but is is
apparent that you are watering too frequently. I suggest
watering no more than twice per week as long as there is no
evidence that the plant is wilting. This will help curb the
root rot which, unlike the gnats, will kill the plant.
Adult fungus gnats fly around and are an annoyance, but they
are not harmful to people. Each gnat lives for about 5 days.
The trick is to get rid of the next generation - the gnat
larvae that live in the top layer of the soil. Try to keep
the soil as dry as possible. Remove all loose soil and rocks
from the surface and place 1/2 inch slices of raw potato on
the surface of the soil. These potato slices will attract
the gnat larvae.
After a day or so, discard the slices along with the larvae
inside. Repeat this until there are no more larvae in the
potato. You just need to be a little more careful about how
much water you give your bonsai after all the larvae are
gone. Make sure that you do keep you bonsai tree in the sun.
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Enjoy!
I wish you all the best on your
bonsai adventure!
Best wishes,
Thomas T :)
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