It's been a long time coming and it took ages for us to get everything just right. We even spoke too soon last month when we announced that we had a secret. Details, details! However, it's now official!

Dallas Bonsai Garden has Bonsai Trees!

We have pinched, pruned, propogated, and prepared many fabulous varieties over the last two years and they are ready for primetime!

We are making them available as we can and as they reach the height of their beatuy, but over the next two months you will see all of our varieties make their debut on our website.

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To start off, we have created Bonsai Starter Kits in economy and premium versions. These kits have everything you need to take care of your new bonsai, including:

• The Bonsai tree
• 8 inch plastic pot and tray.
• Bonsai Soil.
• Akadama top dressing - will alert you to the wetness or dryness of your soil.
• Japanese drainage mesh for the holes in your container.
• Liquid fertilizer and root stimulator for the health of your Bonsai.
• Japanese Wire to train your Bonsai.
• Imported fisherman with fishing pole and fish.
• Attractively designed Japanese label in the form of a hut.
• Either Japanese high quality traditional shears or Japanese mini shears to prune your Bonsai depending upon the package.
• A Bonsai guide book - changes depending upon the package.

The Dallas Bonsai Garden mission has always been to offer you the greatest quality, and the greatest selection, at the lowest price and we have been true to our word for over 30 years now.

We have kept it up with our new Bonsai Starter Kits as not only do we include all of the top quality gear to take care of your bonsai for the first year, not only do we make a high quality tree available at a good price, we also offer you the options of purchasing the tree pruned or unpruned! Unpruned are less expensive!

While there are many reasons to purchase a fully styled bonsai, when you purchase a bonsai that has been pruned and styled by someone else, you lose the chance to make the tree your own. Think of the tree as a canvas. You can paint on this canvas anything you want to create. If you simply buy a bonsai that someone else has styled, you are simply perpetuating and maintaining their work.

That's like having an artist prepare a canvas for you, draw lines on the canvas and telling you to paint between the lines.

We give you the opportunity to take a bonsai tree and make it your own.

We have pruned and unpruned, but we kept the pruning to a minimum so that you will still have complete control over the style of your bonsai. This is how you learn to create beautiful bonsai!

Special Reserve Plants

My wife Elizabeth has been been styling bonsai alongside me for over 35 years and she has a special selection of bonsai that we are calling the Special Reserve. These bonsai have been lovingly tended and styled by Elizabeth. Once you have learned how to create your own bonsai and control the environment it lives in so that it thrives, these bonsai make ideal additions to your bonsai collection because of their tremendous beauty and potential.

The Special Reserve plants are currently available in a Bonsai Kit, but we will be selling them seperately soon.

Remember! The Special Reserve plants are numbered. The one you see on the site is the one you will purchase. Once it's gone, it's gone!

*All of our plants are left unrefined to allow you to personalize them with your own style. While some plants may be indicated as being either windswept or informal upright, this is the shape the plant naturally grew in.

Now for the good stuff...the pictures!

Click here to see all of the bonsai trees!

Our new monthly Bonsai tips are brought to you, by special arrangement, courtesy of the John Yoshio Naka Family. You can find the full year’s guide and a whole lot more in the book Bonsai Techniques I by John Naka. We have both of Mr. Naka’s books, Bonsai Techniques I and Bonsai Techniques II, available for immediate purchase.

In general, the same rules for the care and culture of bonsai during January hold true for February. The weather conditions for both months are quite similar. However, there are times when quite warm weather prevails, usually toward the end of the month. This unseasonal warmth will cause certain reactions in certain bonsai, and the following special precautions should be taken.

If a deciduous bonsai starts sprouting and /or blossoming, it should be brought out of the shade into the sunlight gradually. If left in the shade, the new sprouts will grow too longs and spindly. This will give the bonsai a weak and straggly appearance. Those bonsai which blossom during February should also be moved into sunlight, or they will develop blooms with a weak, sickly and unnatural color.

The first warm weather of the year sometimes brings on the first infestation of aphids. Watch for them and be prepared to spray or dust. The latter is the most practical, in as much as it is still the season for late rains and heavy dews. A dormant spray with lime-sulphur is necessary before any new sprouts appear.

Fertilizing:No fertilizing yet. However, soil sulphur, iron-tone, crystal gypsite, etc., can be used to recondition alkaline soil. If the soil is too sour, use gypsum lime, wood, ash, etc., to sweeten.

Pruning: A good month for pruning any fruit-bearing bonsai. The tree may be allowed to blossom first, but pruning should begin as soon as possible for healthier fruit.

Cuttings: Start from February and continuing through May is the best time to start cuttings.

Grafting: Grafting on deciduous trees should start this month. The pine family and other conifers may still be grafted this month, but this is the final month to do so.

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