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May is the best of Times!

This month is a wonderful month in the world of Bonsai. We are into longer days and warmer temperatures which means your Bonsai are shaking off the winter doldrums and unfurling their beautiful leaves and for those that do flower their outstanding blossoms.

It’s extremely important to keep in mind three things that affect your Bonsai:

1. Water – As your Bonsai starts into active growth it will need more water and more nutrients (which means fertilizer, either inorganic or organic). It is feeding off whatever has been in the potting medium up to this time, but surely requires an injection of more fertilizer to keep up its health. And…to avert a disaster that some people experience…don’t let your Bonsai sit in water. It will drown. Of course, have drainage holes in the bottom of your pot with drainage mesh covering the holes so the soil won’t rush out of the pot along with the excess water. If you have a tray underneath your pot be sure to decant (pour off) this excess water. What happens in this drowning is that through capillary action all of the spaces between the soil particles are filled with water. Those spaces should be filled with air. Hence the plant dies from suffocation.

2. Light – The more growth that your Bonsai puts on the more light it requires to sustain this growth. Don’t minimize this all-important point. If you grow your Bonsai outside the east or south facing area is best for it. If you are growing your Bonsai inside you need to consider a plant light or have your Bonsai sitting in a east, south or west facing window with at least 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight.

3. Soil/Potting Medium – Be sure you have excellent drainage in your soil. It is extremely important to the health of your Bonsai. How to have excellent drainage? Use larger granular mixes. When Bonsai hobbyists purchase Akadama they are startled by the size of the particles. We are so used to the miniscule sized makeup of our soil out in the back yard that we are amazed that our Bonsai can survive in such a large grain matrix. It can survive and will flourish.

What’s happening at Dallas Bonsai Garden this Month?

Lots of new items!!!

We will be receiving two new books from China. We will be the distributor of this set for the United States. We hope that you will note the arrival which we will post on our website as soon as they are received. Here are some pictures of the books. We are very excited about this and know you will be too.

We have priced these two volumes at $64.00 per set. More details will follow as we have them in our hands. You may pre-order by emailing us your desires and we will email you back when we receive them in our warehouse. warehouse@dallasbonsai.com

And some new Bonsai Tools to help you along with your chores…

These items are perfect for the person who has just a few Bonsai and limited space in which to do repotting or soil additions. This set comes with a pan that can be used as one large one or two smaller ones for two sizes of grains, two soil screens with a very convenient handle, and three small hand tools to add soil to the container in large or small quantities.

View the set here: http://www.dallasbonsai.com/store/bonsai_monthly_sale.html

New and exciting things keep coming into our warehouse and we urge you to check back often. We have new books and magazines which are up on the website. We are constantly scouring Japan for New tools and other items that will be of help and interest to you.

Bonsai Channel Update - New Segment - Mr. Bonsai Wizard

Mr. Bonsai Wizard - The Watering Episode

Mike feels the need to point out some things about watering Bonsai and uses experiments (Like Mr. Wizard) to help us understand the science behind a couple aspects of watering.

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