Bonsai Demonstration – A garden juniper becomes a bonsai tree – Part 2/2

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Graham Potter styles a garden juniper for the first time, continued.

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Bonsai Trees For House And Garden

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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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Bonsai Demonstration – A garden juniper becomes a bonsai tree – Part 1

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Graham Potter styles a garden juniper for the first time.

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bonsai display and garden at como zoo in minnesota bonsai trees tree juniper fiscus pine

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this is just a bunch of my pictures strung together but they are all really nice trees all the trees are over 25 years old

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The Light Garden Lighted Green Bonsai Tree 128 Lights|BNSGR128

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How to Grow Bonsai Trees : Bonsai Garden Climate

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Learn what kind of climate in which you should keep your bonsai tree, in this free video. Expert: Mike Hansen Bio: Mike Hansen, owner of Midwest Bonsai, has been growing, caring, selling, and instructing others in bonsai care for years. Mike is an expert bonsai master.

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Necessities Of The Home Vegetable Garden

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Requirements Of The Home Vegetable Garden.

In deciding upon the place for the home vegetable garden it is well to dispose once & for all of the old thought that the garden “patch” must be an scary spot in the home surroundings. If properly planned, cautiously planted and soundly cared for, it may be made a glorious & harmonious feature of the general scheme, lending a touch of comfortable homeliness that no bushes, edges, or beds can ever produce.

With this fact in mind we will not feel limited to any part of the premises merely because it is out of sight behind the barn or garage. In the small medium-sized place there will not be much alternative as to land. It will be essential to take what is to be had & then do the very best that can be done with it. But there will credibly be a good deal of selection as to, first, exposure, and second, convenience. Other things being adequate, select a spot near at hand, easy of access. It may seem that a difference of only a few hundred yards will mean nothing, But if one is counting largely upon extra moments for working in & for watching the garden & in the growing of many vegetables the latter is almost as primary as the former this matter of favorable access will be of much greater importance than is likely to be at first acknowledged. Not until you have had to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your feet soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched grass, will you understand fully what this may mean.

Exposure.

But the thing of first importance to consider in picking out the spot that is to yield you happiness & delicious vegetables all summer, or even for many years, is the exposure. Pick out the “earliest” spot you can find a plot sloping a little to the south or east, that seems to catch sunshine early & hold it late, & that seems to be out of the direct path of the chilling north and northeast winds. If a building, or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped along marvelously, for an early start is a great big factor toward success. If it is not already protected, a board fence, or a hedge of some low-growing bushes or young evergreen plants, will add very greatly to its usefulness. The importance of having such a protection or shelter is totally underrated by the unskilled.

The soil.

The chances are that you will not find a spot of ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere upon your place. However all except the very worst of soils can be brought up to a very high degree of productiveness specially such small areas as home vegetable gardens need. Large tracts of soil that are almost pure sand, and others so heavy and mucky that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have frequently been brought, in the course of only a few years, to where they yield every year tremendous crops on a commercial basis. So do not be disheartened about your soil. Proper handling of it is much more essential, & a garden- patch of average run-down, or “never-brought-up” soil will produce much more for the energetic & careful gardener than the richest spot will grow under limited methods of cultivation.

The ideal garden soil is a “rich, sandy loam.” and the fact cannot be overstressed that such soils commonly are made, not found. Let us examine that description a bit, for right here we come to the first of the four main factors of gardening food. The others are cultivation, moisture and temperature. “Rich” in the gardener’s vocabulary means full of plant food; more than that & this is a point of vital importance it means full of plant food ready to be used at once, all prepared & spread out on the garden table, or preferably in it, where growing things can at once make use of it; or what we term, in one word, “available” plant food. Practically no soils in long- inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops. They are made rich, or kept rich, in two ways; first, by cultivation, which helps to change the raw plant food stored in the soil into obtainable forms; & second, by manuring or adding plant food to the soil from outside sources.

“Sandy” in the sense here used, means a soil containing enough particles of sand so that water will pass through it without leaving it pasty & sticky a few days after a rain; “light” enough, as it is called, so that a handful, under ordinary conditions, will decay & fall apart readily after being pressed in the hand. It is not essential that the soil be sandy in visual aspect, But it should be crumbly.

“Loam: a rich, friable soil,” says Webster. That barely covers it, however it does describe it. It is soil in which the sand & clay are in proper ratio, so that neither greatly predominate, and usually dark in color, from cultivation and enrichment. Such a soil, even to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if it would grow things. It is significant how quickly the whole physical appearance of a piece of well cultivated ground will change. An instance came under my notice last fall in one of my fields, where a strip containing an acre had been 2 years in onions, and a little piece jutting off from the middle of this had been prepared for them just one season. The rest had not received any extra manuring or cultivation. When the field was plowed up in the fall, all 3 sections were as clearly noticeable as though classified by a fence. And I know that next spring’s crop of rye, before it is plowed under, will show thedemarcation lines just as plainly.
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Requisites Of The Home Vegetable Garden

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Necessities Of The Home Vegetable Garden.

Determining the place for the home vegetable garden it is well to dispose once and for all of the old thought that the garden “patch” must be an dark spot in the home surroundings. If thoughtfully designed, cautiously planted & soundly cared for, it may be made a glorious & harmonious feature of the general scheme, lending a touch of comfortable homeliness that no bushes, borders, or beds can ever produce.

With this fact in mind we will not feel restricted to any part of the premises simply because it is out of sight behind the barn or garage. In the regular moderate-sized place there will not be much alternative as to land. It will be required to take what is to be had and then do the very best that can be done with it. But there will believably be a good deal of choice as to, first, exposure, and second, convenience. Other things being adequate, select a spot near at hand, easy of access. It may seem that a difference of only a few hundred yards will mean nothing, But if one is depending largely upon extra moments for working in and for watching the garden & in the growing of many vegetables the latter is almost as essential as the former this matter of favorable access will be of much greater importance than is likely to be at first acknowledged. Not until you have had to make a dozen time-wasting trips for forgotten seeds or tools, or gotten your feet soaking wet by going out through the dew-drenched grass, will you visualize fully what this may mean.

Exposure.

However the thing of first importance to consider in picking out the spot that is to yield you happiness & delicious vegetables all summer, or even for many years, is the exposure. Pick out the “earliest” spot you can find a plot sloping a little to the south or east, that seems to catch sunshine early and hold it late, and that seems to be out of the direct path of the chilling north and northeast winds. If a building, or even an old fence, protects it from this direction, your garden will be helped along marvelously, for an early start is a great big factor toward success. If it is not already protected, a board fence, or a hedge of some low-growing shrubs or young evergreen plants, will add very greatly to its usefulness. The importance of having such a protection or shelter is totally undervalued by the unskilled.

The soil.

The chances are that you will not find a spot of ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere upon your place. However all except the very cheapest of soils can be brought up to a very high degree of productiveness specially such small areas as home vegetable gardens demand. Large tracts of soil that are almost pure sand, and others so heavy & sloppy that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have frequently been brought, in the course of only a few years, to where they yield per annum tremendous crops on a commercial basis. So do not be discouraged about your soil. Proper handling of it is much more important, & a garden- patch of average run-down, or “never-brought-up” soil will produce much more for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot will grow under limited methods of cultivation.

The perfect garden soil is a “rich, sandy loam.” and the fact cannot be overemphasized that such soils generally are made, not found. Let us analyse that description a bit, for right here we come to the first of the four essential factors of gardening food. The others are cultivation, moisture & temperature. “Rich” in the gardener’s vocabulary means full of plant food; more than that and this is a point of vital importance it means full of plant food ready to be used at once, all prepared & spread out on the garden table, or preferably in it, where growing things can at once make use of it; or what we term, in one word, “available” plant food. Practically no soils in long- inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops. They are made rich, or kept rich, in two ways; first, by cultivation, which helps to change the raw plant food stored in the soil into obtainable forms; & second, by manuring or adding plant food to the soil from outside sources.

“Sandy” in the sense here used, means a soil containing enough particles of sand so that water will pass through it without leaving it pasty & sticky a few days after a rain; “light” enough, as it is called, so that a handful, under ordinary conditions, will crumble & fall apart readily after being pressed in the hand. It is not essential that the soil be sandy in appearance, But it should be crumbly.

“Loam: a rich, crumbly soil,” says Webster. That hardly covers it, however it does identify it. It is soil in which the sand and clay are in particular proportions, so that neither greatly predominate, & usually dark in color, from cultivation and enrichment. Such a soil, even to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if it would grow things. It is significant how quickly the whole physical appearance of a piece of well cultivated ground will change. An instance came under my notice last fall in one of my fields, where a strip containing an acre had been two years in onions, & a little piece jutting off from the middle of this had been prepared for them just one season. The rest had not received any extra manuring or cultivation. When the field was plowed up in the fall, all three sections were as clearly noticeable as though classified by a fence. And I know that next spring’s crop of rye, before it is ploughed under, will show thedemarcation lines just as plainly.
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Olive Trees: a Great Addition to your Garden

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One of the most interesting trees you’ll ever find will be the olive tree. These types of trees will grow in abundance in the Mediterranean area, some tropical parts of Asia, and certain regions of Africa. Olive trees will do best in subtropical climates that see blank the drier summers and possibly mild winters.

Although many people might think of an olive tree just being an olive tree, they actually come in various varieties. Some will actually be a sterile type while others will be fruit bearing. Certain types of all of trees provide a vast array of varied looks. Some may have a weeping branches and others more rigid. Some will have narrow and long leaves while others will not. You’ll also see a variety that have been dwarfed very similar to bonsai type indoor plants. However, some trees will actually grow 50 feet in height and about 30 feet wide.

Olive trees have been well known for having the capacity to live many years. As talked about in the Bible, olive trees have a to important place in history. It has been known that these trees have often lived up to 500 years and more.

Many different gardeners will like this type of tree because of it being an evergreen type with fruit. One of the nicer functions of this tree will be its fruit that helps produce oil and pickles. The fruit it produces will also come in various varieties as you have seen in stores. Size and shape of this fruit may also vary a fair amount depending on the olive tree type. Those olives it produces will usually be a main ingredient in Italian food restaurants.

One of the other benefits of olive trees will be its cream colored flowers with a sweet fragrance that it produces. This tree actually has each its main flower that has both male and female parts and also a flower that has only stamens.

Also, as talked about in the Bible, the olive tree needs to be pruned frequently. Regular pruning needs to be continually performed in order for the tree to maintain its shape and size. As with other fruit bearing trees, pruning really does help it to thrive better and produce more fruit. However, careful pruning needs to be performed in order to avoid bacterial disease like olive knot.

As with other fruit bearing trees, certain pests can cause havoc on for the olive tree. Pests like the medfly and the Dacus oleae will be the enemies of this tree. Precautions will have to be taken in order to avoid damage done by these pests.

As with other fruit bearing trees, saturated soil may help cause root rot. Appropriate irrigation methods will be required in order to produce thriving olive trees. Also, the health of the Olive tree will be encouraged greatly by a regular supply of fertilizer like nitrogen.

As long as your region supports it, you may find out that an olive tree will be perfect for your own garden or landscaping. You too have the chance of planting a tree like this that may live around 500 years or more.

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