Northeast Gardening: 2010 Garden Photos - Part 4, 0 by WaterCan2

WaterCan2 wrote:
Vivid bonfire, and Mikawa looks nice too!

It's easy Venu, just takes intermediate planting skills and a few decades (lol)
The complete book of bonsai by the late Harry Tomlinson is a very good starter book, the Austrian Bonsai I just bought I got at Lowes for $5.99, I added some green Iron, charcoal & ½ teas of Mycorrhizae fungus in the basic bonsai soil mix (buybonsai.com)
see: http://store.buybonsai.com/servlet/-strse-851/bonsai-potting...
- I'll start training it next year when it overwinters & gets used to it's new pot.
- Pines are the easiest but make sure they dry out a bit every now and then, they dont like 'wet feet', the biggest difference you'll notice is that bonsai like the fresh air.

-Then secure the tree to the pot w/ bonsai wire, (as firmly as you can so it doesn't budge) and you're good to go! It's a learning process like everything else, start small and cheap and preferably w/ outdoor bonsai, (easier to handle up here where there's little humidity indoors during the winter). - The book can give you an idea of what basic tools you'll need and you can add or subtract from your tool kit as you get more experienced and know what you want to do.
- cheap tool source...
(* I can vouch for their tools only): http://bonsai-tools.com/)

As you want to try other trees there are plenty of other specialized Bonsai sources which offer just the tree in a training pot - ('the key' is to have the tap root cut at an early age).

- ps. never trim a bonsai pine in the summer, that's a serious 'No No'! (lol!)