Except trimming the bonsai.

A tree in bonsai is a living thing. Like any living thing, it has a cycle of growth. The thing is, the point of bonsai is to ensure that the growth is such that it simulates the appearance of a full-grown tree in miniature.

How do you do this without killing the plant? For a beautiful plant, you want to ensure that you’re keeping your bonsai healthy. Since it is a tree, if you care for it properly, it can live a long time. Ensuring bonsai longevity includes trimming your bonsai properly.

Don’t be afraid to trim your bonsai plant. Many beginners are afraid they will kill their bonsai tree by trimming it. That’s not the problem. To keep a bonsai healthy and beautiful, you must trim the tree. The important first step is to know where and when to trim the bonsai plant. This depends on what sort of bonsai tree you have. A general rule is to make sure you do not trim a bonsai plant when the sap is rising. A bonsai is a tree and sap rises in it just like any other tree in a forest or orchard. So, never trim your bonsai plant in the spring! If your bonsai plant is a deciduous tree (meaning, it loses its leaves in the autumn), late fall is the ideal time to trim your bonsai plant. If you have an evergreen, trim your bonsai plant in late winter.

Before you trim your bonsai tree, look at it carefully. Are there branches that look ill? Are you looking for a specific shape and effect? Bonsai is a combination of art and science. While you want to trim your bonsai for health and longevity, you want it to be beautiful, too! The first branches to choose when you trim your bonsai tree are certainly any sick or dead branches that seem to be threatening the health of the plant. While a certain amount of “driftwood” effect is fine for an esthetic effect, make sure that it is not interfering with the health of the bonsai plant. If you have been observing your bonsai plant carefully, you will have noticed what branches have been producing good leaves or needles, as well as the ones that seem to have been struggling. It is best for the bonsai longevity to trim struggling branches and allow the next season’s sap to rise into the healthy branches for maximum health.

When you have decided what branches to trim, take your sharp shears and cut the branches cleanly. After you have trimmed away everything you want, make sure to seal the cuts on the bonsai plant with a good tree sealant. If you have a deciduous tree, try a tar-based tree paint. If you have an evergreen, it is better to use grafting wax. You can get both items at any good gardening center.

Next fall or winter, make sure to sharpen your cutting shears and get everything ready so that you can trim your bonsai for the ultimate growth and longevity.

Dawn Redwood - 14 years old, 13″-16″ tall

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The Dawn Redwood is by far the most exciting Redwood, and originates in Manchuria China. Once hought to be extinct, the Dawn Redwood was re-discovered in the 1940’s. This Dawn Redwood really is a “true” redwood. It is a living fossil, an isolated “relic” species from a long time ago when there were vast forests of them. Seeds were introduced in the U.S. in 1948, and the Dawn Redwood quickly became popular as an ornamental and bonsai tree. The foliage is more lacey than native U.S Redwoods but what is very different about the Dawn Redwood is that it is decideous. In the fall the light green sprays turn yellow, then bronze, and fall off. Only the Larches do that. Keep outdoors.

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Japanese Beech Bonsai Tree

Japanese Beech - Forest (fagus crenata) - $295.00

Native to Japan where it is used extensively for bonsai. Has 2″ long x 1″ wide foliage that is a little more oval than the European Beech. The foliage turns brown in autumn and remains on the tree until spring when new growth pushes off the old leaves. The smooth grey-white bark is typical of other beeches. Decideous. Keep outdoors. 11 tree group - each tree 11-16 years old. 25″x21″x22″.

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Japanese Beech is a deciduous tree native to Japan and is common throughout it’s deciduous forests. The Japanese Beech ( Fagus Crenata ) is also known as Seibold’s Beech or Buna. It is often found in the region of the Oshima Peninsula in Hokkaid?o south to the Osumi Peninsula in Kyush?.

Japanese Beech can grow up to 30 metres in height and typically grows in isolated stands. It favours sandy, loamy soil that is well drained and is normally found in mountainous areas. The crown of the Japanese Beech tree is rounded and the bark is smooth in texture an grayish in color. The leaves have 7 to 11 pairs of veins and they are broadest at the base of the leaf.

Japanese beech trees are very popular for bonsai because of their availability, ease of care and of course their sheer beauty!

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