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Growing Bonsai

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Trimming

After a while, bonsai need trimming. However, trimming is not just done to keep a specific shape. It is also done to improve health, increase ramnification etc.

Flowering Hawthorn bonsai 2021
Creatagus_monogyna_1 / Featured / Manuals / refining / Trimming

Making Hawthorn bonsai flower

December 17, 2021December 3, 2021 - by Jelle Ferwerda

Hawthorn bonsai are great. Old, cracked bark, small fissured leaves and an abundance of flowers. But getting one too flower might be difficult. Some tips!

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Larch bonsai ready for plucking
Featured / Growing / Styling / Trimming

Larix bonsai maintenance – Plucking growing tips

April 28, 2020April 27, 2020 - by Jelle Ferwerda - 1 Comment

Larch are wonderful for bonsai. However, keeping them budding near the trunk and inside the canopy can be a challenge. One of the ways I keep them in check is through plucking.

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Shari on Yew trunk. Bottom old, top new
Blog / Featured / Trimming / Trunks

Creating deadwood on Yew

January 24, 2020December 28, 2019 - by - Leave a Comment

Nice looking deadwood looks nice. But how do you g about making deadwood that looks really old? I have decided on another strategy for stock in a growing field.

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Creatagus_monogyna_1 / Trimming

Trim for growth

April 28, 2019November 21, 2020 - by - 4 Comments.

Springtime is the period to redirect your growth. This creatagus is one of the first to receive spring treatment.

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Trimming / Trunks

Cut and grow and cut

March 26, 2013April 1, 2018 - by - Leave a Comment

Getting a nice taper is dificult.
Unless you know the power of cutting and growing, in repeated fashion.

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Manuals

Creating a Juniper bonsai rock planting

March 11, 2022January 13, 2022

Grafting Juniper Bonsai

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022

Larch bonsai side branch growing inwards

How to trim and wire larix bonsai

February 25, 2022January 13, 2022

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