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Old Bonsai Tree Craft
Most people think they know what bonsai trees are. Actually, the art of the bonsai tree is ancient, mysterious and pretty amazing.

An old Bonsai watering trick is to place the entire pot in a sink of water an inch or two deep. Let the water absorb from the holes in the bottom of the pot. An inexpensive moisture meter takes the guesswork out of watering. We sell them.

112 year old bonsai example, from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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There is an old bonsai adage "Less is more! This may not hold much credence in the stock market but here it is an absolute. So how do we do this? How do we create mass when there is none or at least very little? Not an easy question to answer.

While old bonsai trees, which do not need to be trained anymore and have been repotted and root-pruned many times already, are adapted to living in small bonsai pots, young bonsai trees need much more room to grow.

There is an old bonsai saying "As with the bottom, so with the top." A root pruning really needs a top pruning to balance the plant; less foliage up top is less foliage the roots need to support. But what to cut?

Pictures on seed packages are often of fabulous old bonsai trees. It is not what your seedling will look like without many, many years of study, planning, shaping and maintenance. (And - it may not happen in your lifetime.) ...

Highlights include a tree trained into the shape of a dragon; "Goshin," an artistic tree arrangement in the "forest style;" a shrunken, flat-topped Bald Cypress from the swamps of the American South; and the almost 400-year-old bonsai pine that ...

Now it seems that there is a great amount of interest in the display and appreciation as a fine art form. This can be easily tracked through looking at old bonsai periodicals from the US—I have them all… ...

trim it back (saving some pieces to use as cuttings) and re-plant in a spare corner of the garden, or a pot big enough to take it. Then, train and shape the new growth, and before long, you could be the proud possessor of a beautiful, old bonsai.

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