What is the best Bonsai for me, a beginner?
Posted by Bonsai Care on Feb 19, 2009
Japanese white pine, Japanese maple, Chinese juniper or Chinese elm?
It depends. It depends on you, your experience, your horticultural knowledge, your location and your environment. The trees you have listed all have unique challenges. All “can” be grown by a beginner, and would do best grown outdoors. I would suggest you find a local club and ask what others are growing in your area. If you can’t find a local club your next bet is to check a garden center and ask what grows where you are.
You need to make sure you pick a healthy plant and do your best to keep it healthy. This requires a well draining soil, plenty of water, sunshine, and fertilizer. All this depends, again, on a number of different variables.
For a list of local clubs check the link below:
http://absbonsai.org/USAClubs.html
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It depends. It depends on you, your experience, your horticultural knowledge, your location and your environment. The trees you have listed all have unique challenges. All “can” be grown by a beginner, and would do best grown outdoors. I would suggest you find a local club and ask what others are growing in your area. If you can’t find a local club your next bet is to check a garden center and ask what grows where you are.
You need to make sure you pick a healthy plant and do your best to keep it healthy. This requires a well draining soil, plenty of water, sunshine, and fertilizer. All this depends, again, on a number of different variables.
For a list of local clubs check the link below:
http://absbonsai.org/USAClubs.html
References :
http://www.matsubonsai.com/blog/post/2008/03/Bonsai-Questions.aspx
http://www.matsubonsai.com/blog/post/2008/05/How-to-Get-Started-in-Bonsai.aspx
The chinese elm can be cultivated as an indoor plant whereas the others are strictly for outdoors. Indoors you can cultivate your plant all year whereas the others have dormant periods in winter and they need that time to rest.
CHINESE ELM (ulmus parvifolia)—outdoor or indoor,
Virtually immune to disease, this is the best elm for bonsai training; and one of the few species of trees that can be grown outdoors or indoors. It is a semi-evergreen tree, but outdoors it is deciduous in cold temperatures. Indoors, it is an evergreen, losing only some leaves as the daylight decreases during the winter months.
References :
http://www.american-bonsai.com/product_info.php?products_id=2991&osCsid=bq91fvhkcotqbbcih0sikq2gr1
http://www.american-bonsai.com/care.php