Palm Beach Illustrated

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Far more than just a zen-chic desk accessory, bonsai trees are a stress-relieving art form with the potential to boost mental health by encouraging concentration and creativity. And, as a type of gardening replete with opportunities for mindfulness,

Architectural Digest India

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The origins of bonsai can be traced back approximately 2,000 years, to the Chinese practice of penjing, which involved recreating miniature landscapes. Sometime around the sixth century, Japanese diplomats and students travelling to China brought the

The Gardener Magazine

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You would think that I would have found plenty of spare time during the Covid-19 lockdown to work on my plants, but as things happen, I have been busier than ever. As a consequence, some of my bonsai have suffered from a bit of neglect. The Commiphor

5280 Magazine

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Harold “Hal” Sasaki’s hands move with swift precision as he winds a length of copper wire around a tiny dwarf jade tree’s trunk. The 82-year-old’s measured gestures reflect decades of pursuing perfection in the ancient discipline of bonsai, in which

The Gardener Magazine

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Most bonsai trees are styled to have a triangular silhouette. This is more obvious with traditional bonsai styles, i.e. Northern hemisphere trees, but is still relevant with our African styles like the baobab and the flat crown. However, sometimes yo

Popular Science

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Trees are magnificent beings. They produce oxygen for humans to breathe, sequester carbon dioxide, and provide shade for many species, including birds, rodents, and humans. If you have a tree lover in your life, you’ve probably heard all these facts

The Gardener Magazine

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Bonsai growers often ask me for advice. Without even looking at their trees I can give them the most valuable advice they will ever get: “Water your plants!” Folks, it is that simple. Without water your plants will shrivel up and die. Yes, we all kno

Home & Decor

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Take one look at Japanese artist Takanori Aiba’s tiny kingdom sculptures, where entire miniature communities are built around bonsai trees, and you’ll feel like Gulliver stepping foot on the imaginary land of Lilliput. The Japanese art of bonsai is

Backyard

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Wes Fleming was raised growing trees. His father grew them, his uncles, his grandfather. In fact, nearly all the men and women around him during his childhood were tree growers. So it’s no surprise to anyone that Wes is renowned today as one of Austr

The Gardener Magazine

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I’ve been writing articles about bonsai for more than 25 years, and every year at about this time I write about the very same thing: preparing for spring. And yet, for the last 25 years I have been caught off guard myself. That is because when spring

Outdoor Life

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IN THE RIGHT area, nothing beats a climbing stand for mobile bow-hunting. You can be settled in and hunting in a third of the time—and with less noise—than it takes to hang a lock-on. Though they’re considered whitetail tools, climbers work over elk

Visi

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In each of the six pods – or suites – that make up the accommodation at Silvan Safari in Sabi Sand Game Reserve you will find a copy of Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard Higgins, with a foreword by Robert D Richardson. American naturalist

NPR

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When the tree started growing around 1692, the Salem witch trials were being held in the American Colonies and Spanish colonists were retaking control of Santa Fe.

Watercolor Artist

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Downstairs from Tom Young’s home-based painting studio is the other place where the artist spends significant time: his “bonsai room.” There he keeps about 20 of the potted ornamental trees, the largest being no taller than 2 feet. “I move back and f

Woman's Weekly

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✣ The National Trust’s oldest tree is the Ankerwycke Yew in Runnymede, Surrey. Now 2,500 years old, it’s said that King Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn under its branches. ✣ At Stowlangtoft Hall in Suffolk, there’s a tree (above) reminiscent of the Wh

Amateur Gardening

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Q Two years ago, we moved to a wonderful spot with a neglected, one-acre garden that had 20ft (6m) conifers all around it. We have removed the trees and now have great views, but would like to plant some low-growing, wind-tolerant trees and shrubs. W

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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1 Your garden’s conditions, be they acid or alkaline, clay or sandy soil, shady or sunny. 2 The purpose of the tree, and personal taste in terms of foliage, flower and fruits. 3 Size – only larger gardens have sufficient space for tall varieties of o

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Oaks are the kings of Dartmoor’s ancient forests and are crowned by yellow and gold in the autumn. Look out for distinctive lobed leaves, acorns, broad extending canopies and, of course, squirrels in its boughs. Down by the river, the gnarly barked

The Guardian

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There is a long history behind the carbon-absorbing leaves and branches that shade our pavements

The Gardener Magazine

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It could be said that this little plant is the succulent world’s natural bonsai, as it definitely resembles a miniature tree with its delicate branching stems bearing many small rosettes that create a rounded crown. Another thought that arises when g

WellBeing

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There is a tree in a community garden. Every day, patients at a nearby mental hospital gather to sit beneath its branches or lean against its trunk. The tree was a gift to the community several decades ago. It was a seedling then; now it is massive,

Garden & Gun

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The Memphis suburb of Olive Branch, Mississippi, is home to the country’s largest collection of miniature trees. Brussel’s Bonsai Nursery is roughly the size of New York’s Grand Central Station and stocks some 100,000 tiny trees, from $33 dwarf jades

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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You may feel daunted at the prospect of planning your garden around big old trees – they cast shade and suck up all the nutrients and water from the soil. But this cool-climate garden with heritage-listed trees that can’t be removed has worked around

Landscape Architecture Australia

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Since pioneering the very first underground tree anchoring system in 1983, Platipus has continued to innovate and develop high quality tree anchoring solutions for every planting situation. With the ever-increasing desire to create beautiful landscap

Indianapolis Monthly

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Eric Doepp doesn’t always follow the rules when it comes to the ancient art of bonsai. He has grown his business, Fountain Square Bonsai (1336 Shelby St., fsqbonsai.com), by sometimes breaking tradition—uniquely potting his little trees in vintage be

Woman's Weekly

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National Tree Week, from 28 November to 6 December, marks the start of the winter tree-planting season. You can plant any time from now until March, unless the soil is very wet or frozen. Make sure you take time choosing the right tree, though, takin

Blue Mountains Life

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Thomson's Garden Centre has a rich history of selling Garden nursery supplies to the Central West for over 30 years. In this time the business has grown into a leader in it’s field supplying unbeatable prices on a massive product range with everythin

Amateur Gardening

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I’VE just felled a bay tree in my garden and, as every child knows, counting the rings on the stump shows its age. But that’s just the start–look at the ring’s shape and you can learn a whole lot more… Earlier in spring BCV (Before Covid-19), I met u

The English Garden

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For Charlotte, clothing the perimeter boundaries with carefully chosen plants is key. She particularly recommends the hard-working Trachelospermum jasminoides – “it smells delicious in summer and works well on a cool wall too with fewer flowers” – an

Homes & Gardens

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At Mitton Manor Garden in Staffordshire, structure is provided by an avenue of pleached hornbeam, underplanted with box balls and topiary. This formal design is particularly useful planted along the edge of an overlooked garden to extend the fence or