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Anyone do bonsai?www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-QdjpaIFM

We went to the wildflower center today and my wife mentioned there's a bonsai exhibit at the botanical gardens. It got me curious about bonsai, specifically texas native oak bonsai. I like the idea of keeping and caring for a tree without having to own property to do it.

I found this video of a huge english oak bonsai (and many other great bonsai videos on the you tubes).

Does anyone on SN do bonsai?

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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Apr

I didn't know Bonsai could be applied to an oak tree, but I guess it makes sense.

I had just associated Bonsai with a very specific type of japanese tree

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Apr

Me too until today. I think the trad tree we both have in mind is Juniper.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 8 Apr

Juniper is one of the traditional trees, another is Japanese Maple. I had both juniper and maple trees while I was living in Japan. Some of my students gave me some trees that were about 15 years old when they gave them to me. I did more trimming and molding and repotted a few, but was too leary of trimming roots. From experience elsewhere I knew that you didn’t screw around with roots under the drip line without drastic effects on the tree, like killing it or killing half of it. After taking care of them for about 7 years, I returned them to my students before repatriating. It was a really calming thing to do.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fastloris 30 Jul freebie

Bonsai can be applied to any tree, as it's the just practice of growing a tree/bush/plant in a container, with the aim to reproduce nature on a small scale. Generally a primary goal is to make the bonsai look like an old tree, on a small scale. In addition to Junipers, another traditional and typical bonsai tree is a the pine tree (specifically Japanese Black Pine and White Pine).