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Larch Trees

Larch trees can make beautiful bonsai specimens! They have delicate foliage that turns a lovely golden colour in the autumn, which adds to their appeal as bonsai. When styling a larch bonsai, you can emphasize its naturally elegant shape and create a miniature version of its majestic appearance in nature.

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Shimpaku Juniper

The Shimpaku Juniper is native to Japan, the Kurile Island and the Sahalin Peninsula. It prefers rocky, well-drained soils. In its natural range, it is most often found growing near the sea. The foliage is needle-like on young trees and scale-like on older trees. The fruit is a small, hard, bluish berry. One of the best characteristics of Shimpaku is its hard resinous wood; ideal for advanced sculptural techniques such as jin, shari and sabamiki.

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Buxus Harlandii - Victor Byrdy

The Buxus group embraces many forms around the world. The common English Box, Dutch Box, Korean Box, Japanese Box, the Taiwanese Box (Buxus Harlandii) and the Kingsville Box. They share the same needs and requirement when growing and propagation so the information about the Harlandii will apply to all the Buxus species.

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Serissa Foetida

The Serissa is also called snow rose, tree of thousand stars or Japanese boxthorn. It is a subtropical small shrub with tiny white flowers that appear from spring through summer.

The Serissa is evergreen or semi-evergreen with fine oval, shiny green leaves and variegated coloured leaves. Flowers range from single white star shaped flowers, double whites and also pink.

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Defoliation of A Fig Tree

Defoliation is the complete or partial removal of the leaves of a bonsai tree. The technique is used to reduce the leaf size thus making the replacement leaves smaller and in better scale to the tree's size. Defoliation is often done 3 weeks prior to exhibiting or photographing the tree. Another benefit of defoliation is the increase in branch ramification that occurs with defoliation.

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Ficus Bonsai Care Guideline Placement

It requires a lot of light, preferably full sunlight, so be sure not to place it in a shady location. The temperature should be kept relatively constant. Figs can endure low humidity due to their thick, waxy leaves, but they prefer higher humidity and need extremely high humidity to develop aerial roots. Winter protection may be required if you experience very frosty conditions in the winter.

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Wisterias

A detailed overview of the many Wisteria species.

Most wisteria bonsai are of medium or large size because the long flower clusters need some height to hang from. Wisterias are very well suited for bonsai but their special feature is the flowers. After flowering the trunk and branches are hidden under long leaves and proliferating tendrils and then the wisteria returns to the second row in the bonsai garden.

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