| He owns a great website helping people find out more about the bonsai tree. |
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| Bonsai tree wiring is an advanced skill to grow the bonsai into an art form. |
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| The nation that dreamed up bonsai and origami and leads the world in nanotechnology prefers life to be bite-size, delicate, petite. |
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| As the art of bonsai demonstrates, you can limit almost any tree to any size by careful pruning. |
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| Our hotel had the most exquisite gardens with bonsai and frangipani trees everywhere. |
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| Barry's a horticulturist and I just love growing things so we bought a cedar tree and a book on the basics of bonsai. |
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| The trees belonged to her husband Thomas, 57, a self-employed window cleaner, who has been growing bonsai for more than ten years. |
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| When she arrived, she gazed upon a very old bonsai tree that lay rooted in the middle of a serene rock garden. |
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| This presentation, the second in a series, showcases excellent bonsai from the very best artists in the world. |
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| My problem is that I live in an apartment and have a lot of cacti, bonsai and orchids but I am unable to put them in a correct place. |
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| On display is a range of artificial bonsai plants that can enliven your rooms. |
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| She quickly misted her bonsai tree and then laid down on her bed and finished writing her letter. |
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| Given an adequate supply of water, air and light, a properly maintained bonsai should outlive a full-size tree of the same species. |
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| Mr Bolton has been practising the art of bonsai for more than 30 years and has around 50 different trees. |
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| The large hinoki cypresses, which were imported from Japan in 1913, have been in the United States longer than any other known bonsai. |
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| Don't miss Kinokuniya Bookstore, where you will find everything from collections of Japanese poetry to books on the art of bonsai. |
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| The history of bonsai goes back countless ages, with the first evidence of small potted trees showing up in Egyptian tombs over 2000 years ago. |
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| Tropical bonsai, such as serissa, ficus, or bougainvillea can not adapt to freezing temperature and must be protected against frost. |
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| She explained that a bonsai tree could easily outlive its owner if properly cared for. |
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| Two of my favourite indigenous trees for bonsai are the white stinkwood and the red stemmed corkwood or paperbark. |
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| Many of the folks in my bonsai group un-pot their trees in early fall and plant them back in the ground on top of a piece of slate or the like. |
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| To their great surprise, they find only hybrid species like orchids, anthurium and some bonsai varieties. |
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| But in Young's opinion bonsai is no worse than cutting grass, pruning roses or keeping topiary. |
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| Mr Hawksby said the Scottish contingent were all people he met while exhibiting or teaching bonsai at shows. |
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| Besides the aromatic oils and dried flowers, the shop sells rarer products such as seeds and bonsai. |
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| While I have used commercial bonsai soils, the best tool purchase I ever made was a set of soil sieving screens. |
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| I recently went to a local bonsai nursery and checked out the potted up White pines and the grafts were hideous. |
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| Some varieties lend themselves to topiary sculpture, espalier, or bonsai training. |
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| Seeing that he had a green thumb from a young age, the friend suggested specialising in some particular form like the bonsai or cacti. |
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| Add a small water plant in a bonsai dish, rocks, a submersible pump, and a bamboo spout. |
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| At that stage, the bonsai will have filled out and there'll be moss on the trunk and roots. |
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| But he said that he will not part with any of the bonsai from his collection even if a bigger price were to be offered. |
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| It wasn't until Japan exhibited at the 1878 World Exhibition in Paris that bonsai resurfaced on the international stage. |
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| These miniature trees made famous from the Japanese art of bonsai can be found all over Asia, in China, Thailand, Vietnam and other cultures. |
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| On top of them put some natural objects such as shells, pebbles, leaves, fruit, flowers or plants or bonsai. |
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| Organic garden with fruit and vegetables, more than 60 species of old roses, large border, bog garden, rockeries and a large collection of seed grown bonsai. |
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| Ways of Going Home was a bit longer than bonsai and The Private Lives of Trees but not by much. |
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| Creating bonsai trees is, in fact, a fully developed art with its own philosophy, technique, tools, gradations and variety for the Japanese who evolved it into such a finesse. |
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| It was built into what looked like a huge, fifty foot tall bonsai tree. |
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| Her kimono was sky blue and had a bonsai tree sewn into the sleeves. |
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| Genévrier of China belongs to the family of the Cypresses and is very popular and easy to cultivate in bonsai. |
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| Beginner bonsai growers will be able to enjoy demonstrations on styling and repotting trees, and there will also be specialist tools available for sale. |
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| Its trunk, marvelously tied, gets for the tree an old appearance so required in the culture of bonsai. |
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| This teetotaller and non-smoker is very much a family man, and spends his spare time helping his wife tend to their large collection of bonsai plants. |
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| Garden centres sell basic bonsai for as little as £10, most of them imported from Japan. |
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| In China, we have the pleasure of mastering numerous art forms such as bonsai, calligraphy, and landscape painting. |
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| The telial host is Juniperus chinensis, widely grown as an ornamental tree or dwarf ornamental, or bonsai plant. |
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| Chaenomeles Japonica is very appreciated for its culture in bonsai, mainly for its splendid small flowers. |
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| It is also cultivated as a decorative tree or a bonsai, and can be cut with the height desired. |
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| The approximately 100-120 year old Taxus bonsai truly gets the attention it deserves. |
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| The Baobab tree is easy to cultivate at the interior, out of pot and wants to be a single bonsai. |
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| The bonsai of house must be preserved at a temperature of 20 with 25°C in Summer and the top of 17°C in Winter. |
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| Banyans make splendid bonsai, but can also reach 30 meters in height in kind. |
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| The bonsai can be developed with only one trunk, its crown is then rather round. |
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| The aristocrats of plants grown in pots are bonsai, perfectly normal garden trees skilfully trained to grow as miniatures ranging from three inches to three feet tall. |
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| This is also manifest in things like bonsai, where control of form and nature is more important to aesthetic beauty than the wild lines of real nature. |
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| Cultivating a bonsai tree requires some care and attention, but as a reward it brings tranquility to the mind, a feeling of being refreshed and, inner peace. |
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| It currently looks like a sad hybrid of a luscious, fully clothed version of a large tree and an ultra-pruned incredibly stylish and completely unnatural super-arty bonsai. |
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| Slightly smaller, but no less vigorous is Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig which is often used as a bonsai because it responds so well to pruning. |
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| I read somewhere that at first you did not understand how bonsai could be made into a film. |
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| Having said that, how about one of us Joe Schmoes styling a raw piece of collected material, influenced not by nature, but by one of these cookie cutter bonsai. |
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| The boxwood is tall enough to provide a feeling of shelter while you're sitting down, yet low enough so that you can enjoy glimpses of the beautiful bonsai beyond the hedge. |
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| When the Chees moved to Lismore in 1988 they brought with them two semi-trailers full of bonsai trees, which they have planted out in quarter acre block on their property. |
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| Fifty species of bonsai, comprising trees and shrubs, are on display. |
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| I just answered a post from a lady who had cared for her beautiful bonsai for 9 years and couldn't figure out why it was slipping away this season. |
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| You see them quite often in garden centres in the section selling bonsai and air plants. |
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| An important point concerning G. yamadae is that bonsai junipers present a likely pathway for entry, and that bonsai plants are in any case under close surveillance for many exotic pests. |
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| If I play the Japanese role whole-heartedly, it would be a bonsai. |
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| The red Pine of Japan is very much used for the culture of bonsai. |
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| The Maple Trident is a traditional subject for the culture in bonsai. |
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| It is a traditional specimen of bonsai which does not lose its needles. |
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| Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia is a popular choice for bonsai owing to its tolerance of severe pruning. |
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| It is very tolerant with the size, necessary for the culture of bonsai. |
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| Moss is also used in bonsai to cover the soil and enhance the impression of age. |
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| It has become a popular species for bonsai in Europe and is used for medium to large bonsai sizes and a multitude of styles. |
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| It is also popular as a bonsai in many parts of Europe and makes a handsome small to large sized bonsai. |
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| A jumblesome profusion of cuttings and grafts offers a more promising metaphor than does bonsai. |
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| Tuesday, as the bonsai rotated on a wooden Lazy Susan, Del Tredici snipped at the root ball in a painstaking process that took three hours. |
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| She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library. |
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