Bonsai How To

  Reveal the Trunk Line. Sounds like a telephone company term, doesn’t it? A good starting point will be deciding which branches you might want to keep, and remove the others.  Your objective will be to reveal the trunk line, by pruning what you don’t want to keep.  Was it David that said, when asked [...]

  Now You’ve Got Your Plant Home. Now What?   After spending an afternoon or evening at your local nursery looking over all the possibilities and then selecting just the ‘right one’, you are now home and wondering.  What now?    Name your plant!  Well, you don’t have to; but you probably named your first [...]

What kind of plants? Shrubby plants are a good starter.  As you get better and more experienced, there are numerous additional choices. It is recommended that you start fresh, and not buy an already made bonsai from your local grocery store, or pharmacy or car dealer (that’s a joke), thus the continuing reference in going [...]

  Bonsai. Where to start.  For me, the starting point was studying about bonsai, even back to its origin and history. There are numerous books and websites that can give you valuable information.  Then I made a trip to the nursery to talk with a skilled technician (or whatever you call someone who is knowledgeable [...]