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Winter Protection for Bonsai
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Planning a Japanese Garden - Before beginning a Japanese garden, look carefully at any made in your district or articles on this subject and study pictures of well-designed Japanese examples. So far as possible, the plants used should be native Japanese kinds, and the soil should be... more Oversowing Lawn - Oversowing is an acceptable practice and is not a difficult operation. Suitable grasses are hybrid bent or the cheaper NZ Browntop bent. Hybrid bent is the grass used extensively for bowling greens.
To prepare the lawn for oversowing, lightly scratch i... more Repotting Bonsai - Since a bonsai remains in a container for life, soil becomes a very important matter; the potted tree cannot extend its roots and find moisture or food like a tree grown in the ground. The roots do continue to grow, but they eventually become potbound and... more Seed Raising and Drainage - It is very important to provide good drainage. Fill the seed-pots to one-quarter of their capacity with clean broken clay pots, called crocks, and give seed-boxes or pans a good layer of these crocks over the drainage holes—coarse gravel or clinker ash ca... more Potted Roses - Rose-bushes, growing in various kinds of containers, are sometimes available during late spring and summer. These plants are useful in filling bare spaces in rose beds or other parts of the garden.... more Standard Roses - Standard roses (sometimes called tree roses in other parts of the world) are those budded on to long canes to give them stems of the desired length. These include miniatures on 15 to 20 in. stems, hybrid teas and floribundas on 24 to 36 in. stems, and wee... more Stony Soil - A stony soil is usually well aerated and well drained. Many plants are quite happy in such soils, so provided there is ample soil the work entailed in sieving it is hardly warranted. If you are not pleased with the appearance of the small stones on the su... more How to Plant Roses - Make the planting hole 15 to 18 in. wide and, except for standards, no deeper than will be required to bring the budding union level with the surface of the soil. (The budding union is the bulge where the main stem starts.) Make a mound of fine soil in th... more |