Bonsai Plant Design Creations

Bonsai plants are plants or trees that dwarfed in a shallow pot with the aim of making a miniature of the original shape of a big old tree in the wild. Planting (sai) is performed in a shallow pot called bon. The term bonsai are also used for traditional Japanese art in the maintenance of plants or trees in shallow pots, and appreciation of the beauty of form branches, leaves, stems, and roots of trees, as well as a shallow pot into a container, or the overall shape of the plant or tree. Bonsai is the Japanese pronunciation for penzai.

The art includes various techniques of cutting and pruning, wiring (the establishment of branches and the branches of trees by wrapping the wire or bend the wire bonding), as well as making the roots spread out on the rock. Making bonsai takes a long time and involve a variety of jobs, such as fertilizer, pruning, crop establishment, watering, and replacement of the pot and soil. Plants or trees dwarfed by cutting the roots and branches. Trees formed with the help of wire on the twigs and shoots. The wire must have been taken before he could scratch the bark of the tree branches. Plants are living things, and nothing can be said bonsai finished or finished. Changes that occur continuously in the plant according to the season or the state of nature is one of the charms of bonsai.
History.

Bonsai is derived from a plant called the art of miniaturization penjing from the period of the Tang Dynasty. At the tomb of the son of Empress Wu Zetian there are frescoes depicting female waitress who brought a flowering tree in a shallow pot. This small shallow pots is the miniaturization of the natural landscape.
The nobility in Japan began to recognize penjing around the end of the Heian period. Kanji characters for penjing pronounced the Japanese as bonkei. Similarly, in China, bonkei in Japan is also the miniaturization of the natural landscape. Art that is only enjoyed by the upper classes, especially among courtiers and samurai, and the new so-called bonsai in the Edo period

Planting bonsai is a sideline samurai Edo period, when the bonsai reached its pinnacle. Since the Meiji era, considered a hobby bonsai style. But bonsai maintenance and watering takes a lot of time. In line with the environment they live in Japan's increasingly modern and does not have a page, bonsai enthusiasts finally limited to the elderly.