Jelle Ferwerda, Author at Growing Bonsai

Rooting Japanese Bonsai Cuttings

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - Leave a Comment

Rooting Japanese maple cuttings made easy! 5 steps and a video too explain it all!

Featured / General / Growing

Pruning a spring flowering lilac tree

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - Leave a Comment

For optimal visibility and health of spring flowering bonsai, spring pruning might be needed. An example, my little leaf lilac bonsai.

Featured / Fysiology / Growing / Materials / Substrate

Substrate effect on Bonsai development

March 25, 2022January 15, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 1 Comment

What substrate is best for bonsai? What differences are there? We take a step towards better understanding differences in a trial with seedlings!

branches / Featured / Growing / Styling / Wiring

Guy wires for bonsai

March 18, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - Leave a Comment

When bending branches, sometimes just coiling a wire around a branch is not practical. Tension or guy wires can then be a good solution.

Featured / Manuals / Styling

Creating a Juniper bonsai rock planting

March 11, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 2 Comments.

Putting together a bonsai on a rock planting can seem difficult. In practice, it could be straightforward. Learn how to create a bonsai on a rock planting!

branches / Featured / Growing / Manuals

Grafting Juniper Bonsai

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 1 Comment

Growing bonsai from Juniper is rewarding. However, sometimes the foliage is less than ideal. Grafting could make the difference.

Larch bonsai side branch growing inwards

branches / Featured / Growing / Manuals

How to trim and wire larix bonsai

February 25, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 3 Comments.

Each year I style several Larch bonsai. A little behind the scenes manual on how I develop larch bonsai

Alternate / Broadleaf / Single-smooth / Singular-alternate / Species

Ficus for bonsai

February 18, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - Leave a Comment

Because of their mallsai affiliation, many people ignore ficus for bonsai Yet, many secies of ficus are great species for bonsai.

Blog / Featured

Repotting a big trident maple bonsai

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - Leave a Comment

Spring is repotting time. Watch some of the work on one of my trees!

Blog / Featured / progressions

Larch forest winterpruning

February 4, 2022February 17, 2022 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 1 Comment

Two years after initially putting together this larch bonsai forest, it is time for a structural prune & cleanup.