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

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

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

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

Horticulture

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EACH TIME you come home with a new plant and give it a good home in your ground you perform an act of faith for a better future. When you move a struggling perennial from here to there, likewise. In your basement late in winter, you plant tomato seed

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

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

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

Men's Health Australia

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WE ARE THE NATION of Banjo’s Patterson’s “giant gumtrees” and the “stark white ring-barked forest” of Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country. Or, perhaps, we were. Today, Australia is among the least arboreal nations in the southern hemisphere, with just 16

Space

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An old red brick house sits on a site at the edge of the Daemo Mountains, in the shade of trees that proceed down the the mountain to the site and blend like a family. The family was concerned. When they thought about leaving their old house and movi

The Gardener Magazine

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One of the most satisfying aspects of growing bonsai is that of propagating bonsai from cuttings. This process is also known as cloning, and although it is used extensively for crop propagation it is also very effective for bonsai. Essentially the pr

The Guardian

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

Wilderness

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HIKERS FROM the Northern Hemisphere often find New Zealand’s evergreen native forests both a source of interest and, sometimes, a disappointment. Where are the golden colours of autumn, the bare starkness of winter leafless trees, and the bounteous f

Farmer's Weekly

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Dear Jonno, From your website, we’ve selected one of your featured homes. It is exactly what we would like. The only difference is that our house should be built entirely of timber. On the farm we recently bought in the southern Drakensberg are hecta

The English Garden

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Through means of satellite imagery and on-the-ground counting, scientists publishing in Nature have estimated that there are approximately three trillion trees on the planet. Soberingly though, we currently lose some 1 billion trees a year to defores

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

Amateur Gardening

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THE weather forecasters made great play on the two storms last month, telling us it was unusual to have such strong winds so early. Not to my memory, it wasn’t – pretty well every year, gales thrash runner beans standing full of leaf and play havoc w

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,

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

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

NPR

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Trees are one of the best ways to fight deadly urban heat, but U.S. cities lose millions every year. And many low-income areas are starting at a disadvantage.

Country Style

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SUMMER IS HERALDED by the arrival of the black cockatoos. They appear like clockwork in the sky, usually in pairs or small flocks, in search of ripe pine cones to feast on. Their call is one of the sounds that dominate the garden during the warmer mo

Amateur Gardening

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A good all-rounder with dainty, star-shaped white flowers in March/April and bronze-green foliage that turns fabulous shades of orange and red in autumn. Needs neutral-to-acid soil that’s fertile and well-drained. H: 10-33ft (3-10m). Large pale pink/