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Spring
is bursting out all over this great United States!
This is wonderful time to enjoy your Bonsai
and to treat them to a portion of your time during
your Spring Cleaning chores.
Let’s
pull out your tools and implements and get them
ready for the tasks that will soon await you. Soon,
or maybe already, you need to prune and possibly
remove some branches or foliage.
We want
to remind you that you need to keep your tools
well oiled and in a location that is not too humid
so as to avoid rust. Our tools are the very best
Bonsai tools available anywhere, but to keep them
in tip top condition you need to spend only a few
moments of your time coating them with either Camellia
Oil (C88 or C84) or our Tool
Oil (T51) and removing any residue that may
have accumulated during their use. The easiest
way for us to accomplish this task is to have a
discarded washrag on hand when we are using our
Bonsai tools. We also have about a 3” by 3” piece of rag that is
soaked in Camellia Oil. We clean our tools after
use, being especially careful to remove any sap that
has accumulated on the blades, and wipe them all
over with the oil soaked rag. This dirty little oil
rag is placed in a plastic bag awaiting its use another
day.
During
these Spring Cleaning chores you may want to think
about changing your decorations that you use with
your Bonsai. Have you thought about changing your
cameo of say a fisherman to say a hut and a smaller
figure that would be to scale? These small changes
can make a difference in your Bonsai’s
appearance. We have some excellent decorative
rocks that will certainly add a natural appearance
to the area surrounding your Bonsai. These Japanese decorative
rocks are a very positive addition.
A more radical idea is changing the container color
or shape. This is an extreme, but can be useful to
you in your study of just what style of container or
color of container would be most appropriate or most
effective to the overall appearance of your Bonsai.
| New at Dallas Bonsai Garden |
We
have just received a container of Bonsai Supplies from
Japan with many, many new and exciting items that
will be of benefit to you and your Bonsai. We have
been able to find a Plant Vacationer/Plant Waterer
that so many of you have asked for. 53 new tools!!!
Some fantastic Japanese Picture books. More new Tokoname
Containers. New Masakuni tools at even better prices.
Many new wound sealers. New Turntables. And a very
useful item for injecting liquid fertilizers into
your Bonsai soil. We will try to have the images
up on the New
Items Page as soon as possible…but,
be patient as we are so busy filling your orders
for Springtime. Please
Bookmark the new
items page.
Part Two on The Chinese Elm by Bonsai Expert Thomas
J.
In part two of two, Thomas J. shows us several examples
of Chinese Elms and throws in a trick or two.
Click
here to read Thomas J's article
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