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Growing Bonsai

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Materials

When you are just starting off with bonsai, it can all be a little daunting. Where to start reading. From soil mixtures to fertilisers. Repotting and trimming. What to do, what to get. What do you need to work on bonsai. Here you will find a list of the materials used in bonsai.

Health / Materials / Repotting / Substrate

Characteristics of good bonsai substrate

February 9, 2018April 1, 2018 - by - 2 Comments.

When growing bonsai, there are few subjects that are more controversial than substrates. To some the concept of not using the Japanese substrates is near blasphemy. Everything that is used …

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Blog / Featured / Stands

Winteractivities: Cleaning and painting the benches

December 27, 2017April 1, 2018 - by - Leave a Comment

The last weeks have been dreary, grey and wet. As such, ideal weather to look at the bonsat stands, clean them up and paint them, so they are ready for …

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Health / Substrate

Avoid winter damage in bonsai: Rain

November 24, 2017April 1, 2018 - by - Leave a Comment

Winter is a cause of a lot of damage to bour bonsai. One of the causes: Rain. Now what causes the damage, and how to avoid this? In other wordt, how do you reduce damage to bonsai in winter due to rain?

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Blog / Health / Pots / Repotting

Why a growbox for bonsai?

January 20, 2017April 1, 2018 - by - Leave a Comment

What is a bonsai growbox? It I actually exactly what the name makes you think it is. A box to grow bonsai and/or pre-bonsai in. Normally these are constructed with …

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Build instructions for a bonsai growbox

January 15, 2017April 1, 2018 - by - 5 Comments.

A basic instruction to create a wooden growbox for bonsai It really is very easy to build a basic growbox for your trees. Besides some bits of wood, all you …

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Stands

Cheap bonsai stand

May 11, 2013April 1, 2018 - by - 3 Comments.

Create a cheap bonsai stand
With just a little time investment you can build your own bonsai stand for the garden, spending only little money.

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Tools

Which tools do I need?

April 1, 2013April 1, 2018 - by - 1 Comment

Which tools do you really need for bonsai?
. It seems like such an easy question. However, it appears to be very dificult to answer if we look at the questions on forums. I will try to give an idea of the basic tools needed in every toolkit for bonsai.

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Tools

Etching your tools

March 29, 2013April 1, 2018 - by - 1 Comment

How do you keep bonsai tools separate in a workshop
We all know it.. You have a nice set of tools. You go to a bonsai meeting. And at the end of the day your tools are mixed in with others. How do you recognize your own?

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Developing Taxus bonsai

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Bonsai material: Digging from a garden

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