Suppose you've just created a bonsai plant, or bought one or received one as a gift. Does the plant need further pruning? Most assuredly, yes. Bonsai need regular pruning both above and below ground ...

Bonsai combines the beauty of man-made sculptures in harmony and perfection with nature in an art form. All parts of a bonsai - roots, trunk, branches, foliage and container - must, like traditional ...

The art of bonsai -- for it is, certainly, an art -- can take months, years, even a lifetime to master. And while that's very impressive and all, if we spent a lifetime perfecting our bonsai, we would ...

The method of training trees into artful dwarf forms is called bonsai, meaning a tree growing in a tray. More than seven centuries ago, the Japanese developed bonsai, and over the years they evolved a ...

Q: This is a 25-year-old jade bonsai (see reader's photo). Recently the very top of the plant has taken on a somewhat grizzled look with smaller deformed leaves and scarred, redder-looking stems ...

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“Root pruning” sounds like such a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it’s a periodic necessity once any potted plant has grown as large as you want it to. Potted plants – like other plants – grow, and ...