Collecting Bonsai From The Wild
Collecting is about keeping as much foliage as possible and keeping the rootball intact.
Collecting bonsai from the wild. Then get it into a good wooden grow box and fill it up with good bonsai soil. How to collect yamadori bonsai trees step by step plan for collecting trees from forests. Dig under the root mass to free the tree. First step is to carefully dig around the tree with a spade be careful not to damage its root system see picture 1 below.
This means that in many. Bonsai from the wild. Don t let the tree dry out in the sun take it home with as little disturbance as possible. Dig up larger trees with a shovel but a trowel can be used for smaller specimens.
In general the best time to collect wild species to use as bonsai is in the early spring when the frost is out of the ground and before the buds begin to swell. Another option is fall just as the trees drop their leaves and become dormant. Collecting trees from the wild part one many native species often the best for bonsai training are very difficult or impossible to find in a nursery. In the field 1.
In the nursery trees are cultivated to grow as rapidly as possible and generate money. Trees grown from. Collecting styling caring for bonsai completely revised expanded 2nd edition hardcover january 1 2007 by nick lenz author. In massachusetts this is between march and the end of may depending on how harsh the winter.