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Bonsai Supplies…Make or Break?

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Rick Lasslett
on August 2, 2008
in Home & Family
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by Rick Lasslett

It can be daunting when first exploring the available information on growing Bonsai trees. You may be tempted to think it’s all too hard or too complicated. So you may just give up before you even start, or not continue with your existing project. One secret is to use a good reliable source of Bonsai supplies and just DO IT.

There are many skills to be learned in the art of Bonsai. As you become more skilled over time you may even get to call yourself a master of the art. But one of the first steps to help you get started is to have good quality Bonsai supplies. The last thing you want is for poor quality supplies to hamper your results.

With the right supplies readily available, this is one area of your project that is already taken care of. Now you can concentrate on the job at hand and not be limited by a lack of the proper Bonsai supplies, be that soil mix, fertiliser, tools, wire or whatever is necessary to do the job!

Proper Bonsai supplies meansjust that. Bonsai supplies that are appropriate for the job and of good quality. The last thing you want is for your tree to die because your soil mixture doesn’t drain well, or you need to prune immediately, but you find your shears are rusty and blunt.

You may think that it is not that important but I bet your plants would disagree with you.

Of course I am not suggesting that you will fail to achieve a beautiful result unless you have everything you need readily available and of top quality. What is more important is the desire to learn the techniques and the patience to put them into practice until you have mastered the art.

The odd failure is inevitable, but the successes are what will spur you on. Its the satisfaction and delight of transforming a tree that would normally be huge into a mature bonsai tree that will now be tiny. That’s a feeling that will carry you along to the next project.

Your Bonsai supplies will then be just another addition to your library of knowledge on the subject. When someone then asks you about Bonsai, you will have had the experience of success and failure to pass on your knowledge with the authority of one who knows.

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How Bonsai Trees Can Turn You Into An Addict

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Rick Lasslett
on August 1, 2008
in Hobbies
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by Rick Lasslett

Instead of telling you all the ins and outs of how to care for you Bonsai tree, the different styles, the techniques, the why and the when…let me just take you into the feeling of Bonsai and give you some idea as to why most Bonsai gardeners are addicts!

If you have not heard of Bonsai trees or Bonsai plants you are a rare person indeed! Bonsai miniaturization probably dates back before the Chinese started several centuries ago. Then Bonsai techniques were picked up by the Japanese who really went to work and refined and perfected the skills to turn them into an art form. Since then the rest of the world has caught up with this amazing hobby and taken to it with a vengeance!

To the newcomer there seems to be an overwhelming amount of information on the techniques of growing Bonsai. There are seemingly important things like styles and forms, pruning and potting, watering and feeding and a long list of things you should and should not do. Is it no wonder that the novice might throw their hands in the air and say its all too hard! However to do that would be a mistake.

Bonsai trees carry an air of indefinable uniqueness. You are taken to a different perspective by their miniature stature and undoubted beauty. To be in the presence of a fully mature tree that is only 12 inches or 30 centimetres tall is a feeling that has to be lived to be fully appreciated. You are transported to a different place, one far from the hustle and bustle of modern city life with its pressures and stresses, and into a place of inner calm. That feeling is enhanced when those Bonsai trees have been trained by you.

As you begin to care for your Bonsai plant and spend some time getting to know your Bonsai you tend to enter into a kind of meditation. The rest of your busy world looses its focus while you concentrate on the job at hand. You can see the shape that the tree is inclined to grow into so you coax it by pruning and shaping, bit by bit until you have the result you were after. It becomes so soothing and relaxing that you can become quite addicted to your ” Bonsai time “.

Time and patience must of course be put in to achieve your aims. But it is the time and patience that is the whole point of Bonsai. It is in the doing that the spirit is calmed not in the achieving of the objective.

However there are some basic things you need to learn before you can loose yourself in this type of meditation. Start with some good quality supplies and the type of Bonsai tree suited to your area. There is plenty of “how to” information available for both new and experienced growers alike and you may want an interesting pot and display table to finish off the project.

Spend some time getting these basics right and you will have a lifetime interest in Bonsai trees that will bring you enormous satisfaction and pleasure.

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Rick Lasslett has had a love of Bonsai for a long time. Before you begin any new Bonsai or look for a unique gift of bonsai trees check out the one stop Bonsai shop http://www.bonsaioasis.com Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service