This art includes various cutting techniques and pruning plants, wiring (the formation of branches and branches of trees by wrapping the wire or bend them with wire ties), and makes the roots spread on the rock. Making bonsai takes a long time and involve a variety of jobs, including fertilization, pruning, crop establishment, watering, and replacement of pots and soil. Plants or trees dwarfed by cutting roots and branches. The tree is formed with the help of wire on twigs and tunasnya. Wire must be taken before they could scratch the skin of the tree branch. Plants are living things, and there are no bonsai that can be said is complete or finished. Changes that occur continuously in the plant according to season or natural state is one of the attractions of bonsai.
Bonsai Red Palm / Palm King
Bonsai Wahong (Premna serratifolia)
Bonsai Santigi (Pemphis Accidulla)
Black Pine Bonsai Types
Bonsai comes from the art of miniaturizing plants called penjing (盆景) of the Tang Dynasty period. At the tomb of the son of Empress Wu Zetian are murals that depict waitress who brought the flowering trees in shallow pots. Small shallow pot is a miniaturization of natural scenery.
The nobility in Japan began to recognize penjing around the end of the Heian period. Kanji script for penjing (盆景) pronounced the Japanese as bonkei. Similarly, in China, bonkei in Japan is also the miniaturization of natural scenery. Art that is only enjoyed by the upper class, especially among the courtiers and samurai, and just called bonsai in the Edo period.
Growing bonsai is a sideline samurai of the Edo period, when the bonsai's popularity peaked. Since the Meiji era, regarded as a hobby bonsai style. However, maintenance and watering bonsai takes a lot of time. In line with the environment they live in Japan are more modern and do not have a page, bonsai enthusiasts finally confined to the elderly.
Size
Bonsai are grouped into six groups based on plant height from the base of the stem to the top of the plant:* Giants: tree height more than 101 cm.* Very large: between 76-100 cm tall tree.* Big: tall trees between 46-75 cm* Medium: tree height between 31-45 cm* Small: tall trees between 16-30 cm* Is very small: tree height is less than 15 cm.