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Pennsylvania- Foraging for a Bonsai
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05-03-2004, 04:23 AM
CHERgingerL
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Pennsylvania- Foraging for a Bonsai
From: Mike
Date: 3/4/04 12:30 AM Easter
I have the opportunity to go out of the city into the western
Pennsylvania or the pocono's as they call it.
.. SOME
of best you can find are in the
ground at OLDER NURSERIES!!!!!
HOWEVER, for a beginner...
JUST looking and picking up to
eye level some nice CANNED
nursery stock...
see if YOU can see AN OLD
tree in the TRUNK formation!!
(however small the plant!!)
junipers, hollies, maples...
OH what a start!!!!!
And you can generally do away
with 1/3 to half the roots easily
with top trimming and maybe
fit it INTO a nice bonsai pot RIght away!!
Now, real pots will have LARGE holes
in the bottom for GOOD drainage..
UNFORTUNATELy, those LARGE
holes will also allow soil to escape...
so take some plastic vegetable bag
(woven kind)
and cover the holes, or if you have
some wire screening available.. that
also
May you be blessed in your endeavors..
and THERE are lots of BONSAI
sites online to LEARN from
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