Monthly News
February Bonsai News
Feb, first month of spring, first month of new growth in a new year. The Snowdrops are flowering and the daffs are pushing through. The snows on my hilly backdrop are clearing, it is still cold outside ...
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January Bonsai News
Winter is a dormant time for your trees, but not for yourself. Their is plenty of planning and maintenance work to be completed. Planning. You will have an exciting year ahead with your trees. So ...
read more...Grow Your Own
Serissa Bonsai
Serissas make excellent bonsai with the right care and shaping. They are an evergreen shrub native to China, Japan, and Indochina (Southeast Asia) where it may be found growing in the woods and wet fields. The ...
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Japanese Maples From Seeds
Growing Japanese Maples From Seeds Growing your own Japanese Maple from seed is a very rewarding experience. What could be better than to watch a seed sprout and become a little twig, then grow to be ...
read more... Pruning Techniques
With the growing popularity of keeping bonsai and perfecting its art form over the past decade, many people may own or want to own a bonsai. Many people see beautiful pictures of bonsai that have been ...
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Azalea Flowering Bonsai
Azalea bonsai are some of the more common bonsai adaptations that were introduced when bonsai was first imported over from China to Japan. It is one of the more beautiful plants to adapted to bonsai ...
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Beginner Bonsai – Juniper
A Juniper bonsai is one type of bonsai trees that is suitable for beginners because it is quite easy to be taken care of. Their are many types of juniper that can be turned into bonsai, such as Shimpaku, ...
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Bonsai Styles
Once you have mastered the basic bonsai styles such as the formal upright style of chokkan, the informal upright style of shakan and the cascade style of kengai, you may want to try some more advanced ...
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Pine Bonsai
If you are new to the world of bonsai, you may want to consider starting with a Jack Pine bonsai tree. Jack Pines (Pinus banksiana) are pretty hardy and may be a little more forgiving than some of the ...
read more...Your First Bonsai
A majority of peoples first Bonsai are Indoor Trees. These are most likely tropical trees from Asia or the South America’s. The following points are for guidance, if you require more details see the ...
read more...Famous Gardens
Butterfly Gardens
Austrian Gardens: Sachertortes, Butterflies and a Garden of Earthly Delights. Vienna, Austria. Land of Mozart, of chocolate cake layered with apricot jam and decadent frosting and of leaping Lipizzaner ...
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A Stroll through French Gardens
Paris has often been referred to as the “city of lights” but it could very well deserve the title “city of gardens.” From the much visited Jardin du Luxembourg to the understated elegance ...
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San Francisco’s Japanese Tea Garden
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is home to world class museums, a pair of Dutch style windmills, its own herd of bison and the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States. Originally built ...
read more...A gathering place in the land of Aloha!
The Big Island of Hawaii is probably best know for the sun washed mega resorts of the Kona Coast, its strong, rich, delectable coffee beans and of course nature’s light shows at Hawaii Volcanoes National ...
read more...Japanese Gardens
Japanese Gardens, Tranquility Personified
Japanese Gardens have been a treasured art form in Japan for centuries, and are very much influenced by the ancient and intricate garden designs of China. ...
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Zen Gardens, Imagination in the Making
By their very nature Zen gardens encourage you to use your imagination. Using carefully placed rocks and stones and open spaces filled with sand or gravel these gardens tend to capture the eye and ...
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Kaiyu-shiki, a place to be…
In the heart of London amidst the fast paced lifestyle that just goes with living in a major city, a haven of tranquillity sits on the roof of a house of healing. The Great Ormond Street Hospital in the ...
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Feng Shui And Bonsai
Why not create a corner of your garden or home to express peace and harmony by combining two ancient arts forms. Feng shui and Bonsai. ...
read more...Sculpting a Japanese Garden
There is something extraordinary about Japanese gardening, in part because of the tranquil and healing environment that it provides. It’s a place for deep thought, a peace offering in its own respect. ...
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Japanese Gardens, Poetry in Motion
The Japanese people have always been in tune with nature and accepting of the concepts of change and the passage of time. This harmony is expressed through many artistic mediums, but none so evident, ...
read more...Japanese Water Gardens and Light!
You can create remarkable effects for your Japanese water garden, stream, and waterfalls with lighting. You can make a fountain glimmer, illuminate the underwater world of your Japanese garden, highlight ...
read more...Japanese water gardens, choosing your plants
Having carefully planned and constructed your Japanese water garden, it’s time to bring it to life with plants. A Japanese water gardener’s goal is to echo nature with rocks, water, and plants. ...
read more...Tinytrees Garden
Buttercups and Bonsai…
I had an early morning walk this morning (9am is early to me) and noticed that this year must be the year of the Buttercup. Every year I watch the cycle of the weed invasion on the percolation area. ...
read more...Nature’s watering can!
It’s great that ‘Natures Watering Can’ helps to make life much easier, especially when the number of tree’s and plant’s outnumber’s the amount of trips you really need ...
read more...February Bonsai News
Feb, first month of spring, first month of new growth in a new year. The Snowdrops are flowering and the daffs are pushing through. The snows on my hilly backdrop are clearing, it is still cold outside with that sharp Irish dampness that does its best not to heal your bones.
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Japanese Gardens, Tranquility Personified
Japanese Gardens have been a treasured art form in Japan for centuries, and are very much influenced by the ancient and intricate garden designs of China.
Serissa Bonsai
Serissas make excellent bonsai with the right care and shaping. They are an evergreen shrub native to China, Japan, and Indochina (Southeast Asia) where it may be found growing in the woods and wet fields.
The serissa foetida has small oval leaves which are slightly larger than the serissa japonica’s. It may erupt with small white [...]
Japanese Maples From Seeds
Growing Japanese Maples From Seeds
Growing your own Japanese Maple from seed is a very rewarding experience. What could be better than to watch a seed sprout and become a little twig, then grow to be a beautiful tree? The secret to starting you own tree from seeds, is something called stratification. This is where you [...]
Zen Gardens, Imagination in the Making
By their very nature Zen gardens encourage you to use your imagination. Using carefully placed rocks and stones and open spaces filled with sand or gravel these gardens tend to capture the eye and the mind and hold both. Soon one can see the waves undulating in the sand ponds as they push around the [...]
