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Exotic Bonsai Choices To Enhance Your Collection
The majority of bonsai artists stick with the more common deciduous, confierous, or fruit trees when developing their bonsai tree collection. However, more exotic bonsai varieties can be found that allow the bonsai artist to enhance his or her skills.
Wisteria makes an excellent alternative to the run-of-the-mill bonsai. A native of China, Japan, and Korea, they can reach 30 feet in the wild. Developing them into a bonsai is an interesting challenge, since they don’t conform to any of the usual styles.
The Wisteria flowers are both beautiful and aromatic and come in a variety of colors, including pink, purple, blue, and white. Blossoming in the Spring, they need lots of water with sufficient drainage and they do well in any where from full sun to partial shade. Just before they bloom in the spring, you should provide them with ample fertilizer, and once again in late summer before they shed their leaves.
Another alternative is Orange Jasmine which will provide a delight to the nose and beauty to the eye. Orange Jasmine bears a bright red fruit and fragrant, white blossoms.
Orange Jasmine should be fed every three to four weeks beginning in early spring and continuing through mid-autumn. Light watering is sufficient for most of the year, with slightly more in the hotter season.
Because they generally grow better in moderate shade or filtered sun, Orange Jasmine is one of the few bonsai that can, and should be grown indoors.
The Mimosa tree, also sometimes known as silk trees due to their long silky filaments, offer another good choice. They are as fragrant as both of the two choices mentioned above and their puffy flowers and lacy foliage are also just as lovely.
The Mimosa’s flowers bloom in late April to early July and moderate water should be given during the blooming season. However, you should avoid getting water on the flowers because, much like a number of other flowering plants, the flowers will quickly deteriorate when wet.
The Mimosa will be one of the larger bonsai in your collection. They grow rapidly, have large leaves and are very difficult to sustain at a very small size. So give them lots of room on the display bench.
The Desert Rose is another non-traditional bonsai that can turn an ordinary collection into one full of color and excitement. This native of East Africa can grow up to 10 feet in the wild and produce large, pink, trumpet-bowl flowers.
Requiring lots of fresh air and plenty of sunshine, the Desert Rose should be kept outside most of the year. However, their very bushy habit makes them a great complement to the more traditional bonsai set in your collection.
However, the Desert Rose is sensitive to cold, so they should be brought indoors in cold climates or during periods of cold weather as they will not thrive in temperatures below 10C (50F). With temperatures in the 10C-15C (50F-60F) range, they will lie dormant and healthy and during this period they will need very little water.
These beautiful and fragrant flowering plants will challenge your bonsai gardening skills, expanding your horizons. They will provide an ever-changing display as they go through the seasons, blossoming in the spring and dropping their leaves in the fall, increasing interest to your collection and when placed amongst the more traditional evergreens, such as firs, junipers, and pines, they add a nice contrast.
George Dodge enjoys landscaping and gardening as a hobby. Bonsai gardening offers hours of enjoyment producing exquisit miniture trees and shrubs as an art form. His Bonsai Tree Gardening site presents tips for the beginning bonsai gardener. Experiment with exotic bonsai choices to roundout your collection.
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