Where can I get a couple of affordable bonsai trees?
Question:I really like the trees and I always wanted like two for decoration.
Answers:
Real ones take years and lots of patience and skill to grow, not to mention a pot, soil, Japanese shears.
Although I practically fall all over them at every nursery and Chinatown I visit, try this web site if you can't find a few locally.
The cheapest way is to make your own bonsai.
Go to your local nursery and buy a small tree about the size you want. Prune it into a pleasing bonsai shape. Use wire if you want a cool windblown twisty shape. A good nursery will also have bonsai pots, wire, and soil (or add lots of sand to regular potting mix.) Don't fertilize. Keep them outside. Water when necessary. Prune back as needed.
If you want a deciduous tree bonsai (a tree that loses its leaves), every year remove the leaves, let them grow back, then remove them again until they come back in tiny. Have fun!
It depends, if you want outdoor or Indoor. What zone are you?
If you want a out door one you can collect any seedling in your neighborhood and place it in a pot to grow.
If it's an indoor you would have to go to a specialties nursery that carries the pre-potted indoor kind with instructions.
Also by books on the subject and check out web sites on the care and management of your new plants.
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