| Happy Holiday's to You and Yours! |
All of us have many things to be thankful for in our lives and the Bonsai hobby is just another part that brings our lives so much joy. This holiday season, be sure to share the spirit of love and giving with your family and friends.
To that end, thank you for being our customer and making our lives so magical. Each day we wake up, we are excited about what we are doing. Being able to be a part of this hobby and helping people learn, grow and share their experiences with Bonsai is very important to us. It's because of you that we continue to be the largest and the best supplier of Bonsai supplies in the world.
Happy Holiday's from All of Us at Dallas Bonsai Garden!
| Tropical Bonsai and 2 feet of snow. |
Even with 2 feet of snow on the ground, you can be growing Bonsai! It's true! Tropical bonsai absolutely need to be indoors during the Winter, but that's actually a good thing.
In the Summer months, most people turn their air conditioner down to 65. But in the Winter months, they turn their heater up to 75. If your indoor temperatures are over 68 degrees and you put your bonsai in Southerly facing windows, your tropical bonsai will beef up and get healthy - within reason of course, first they are Bonsai in small pots and second, the photo period each day in the Winter is short.
Even with this, you can still ensure your tropicals stay healthy and don't drop leaves. How? Humidity!
When you break plant care down to it's bare essentials, you have light, water, air and fertilizer. All of these together make up the plants environment. When you control the environment, you can get amazing growth and beauty from your plants.
So you want light to be as intense as the plant desires for as long as possible each day; you want the water to be as much as the plant can use, no more, no less; you want the air to have the precise humidity that your plant wants, and you want to supply your plant with a wide range of "well balanced" nutrition. For plants, this means minerals - NPK and all the trace minerals in tiny quantities.
In the Winter, the light is out of your control unless you want to buy indoor grow lights. The watering and fertilizing are realtively easy to control. The main concern indoors is the humidity. Your heater will suck all of the humidity out of the air in your house leaving it like a desert.
So what do you do? First, realize that humidity makes everything feel warmer. So you will be more comfortable in your house with humidity. That's why the South is so uncomfortable in the Summer - the humidity. So boil water on the stove, use a humidifier, spray the leaves on your plants and use humidity trays. All of these will help to raise the humidity in your home and not only will YOU be more comfortable, your plants will too!
| Gift Ideas for that someone special - even if it's you! |
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Books You can never have enough books.
Three authors may say the same thing, but
how one says it will be more clear to you
than the others. It’s like having
cook books, some are more clear to
you than others in defining just what you
need to execute the job to perfection. |
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Tools This
is a great time to add to your collection.
Why? Well, Japanese tools have been developed
for just about every job that you will encounter
when working on your Bonsai. They are rightly
named, Special Tools for Special Tasks! May
I remind you that in Japanese tools we carry
only one grade of cutters. This is the professional
grade. Cutters are defined as concave cutters,
wire cutters and others. On Scissors/Shears
there are innumerable versions from the
$12.95 Shear up to $300.00 Shears. In Japanese
tools you do get what you pay for. The
differences shows up in the quality of
the blades and the finish. |
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Instructional
DVDs We have some excellent
editions that will help anyone in the hobby
to understand visually how to do the tasks
required to keep your Bonsai happy and healthy.
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