Katie0317
Chumono
My husband and I went to Tampa today to visit Artisan's bonsai nursery. It was well worth the trip. He practices yamidori and his trees are exquisite and he's incredibly nice too. They do a big business.
I'm so excited! I got three pre-bonsai trees...A Bardados Cherry, A Water Jasmine, and a Chinese Elm along with a bag of their soil mix, a small amount of fertilizer, a small pot of bright green moss, a pair of Japanese scissors, Japanese wirecutters, three sizes of wire and a plain brown unglazed pot. I don't even know how to wire yet and I ended up with three sizes of it!
The scissors look like those cheap ones with red and white handles but they have Japanese writing on the blades.
I feel like such a geek to be this happy with getting these things. I bought the Bardados Cherry for my husband because he wasn't going to get anything and it was my favorite and I knew he'd get interested in it if he had one to care for...Sure enough he's Googling Barbados Cherry plants right now. Smile...
They teach a class on how to wire and we'll need to take that.
I bought a Chinese Elm because I want to grow it indoors and I like the S shaped trunks on them.
As I was checking out I noticed the Water Jasmine had two trunks growing half way up the tree very close together. I mentioned to him and he said he'd take one off and the next thing I knew he's cut it off and put cut paste over the cut and I stuck the stalk in the dirt to propagate. He began showing me how to keep it pruned and I was entranced walking him snip the tips of the branches explaining as he did so. He was working with a shiny stainless steel instrument and I was entranced. He was sold out of it...(He's having trouble getting shipments from Japan) but it was fun just watching him snip away.
I'm so excited! I got three pre-bonsai trees...A Bardados Cherry, A Water Jasmine, and a Chinese Elm along with a bag of their soil mix, a small amount of fertilizer, a small pot of bright green moss, a pair of Japanese scissors, Japanese wirecutters, three sizes of wire and a plain brown unglazed pot. I don't even know how to wire yet and I ended up with three sizes of it!
The scissors look like those cheap ones with red and white handles but they have Japanese writing on the blades.
I feel like such a geek to be this happy with getting these things. I bought the Bardados Cherry for my husband because he wasn't going to get anything and it was my favorite and I knew he'd get interested in it if he had one to care for...Sure enough he's Googling Barbados Cherry plants right now. Smile...
They teach a class on how to wire and we'll need to take that.
I bought a Chinese Elm because I want to grow it indoors and I like the S shaped trunks on them.
As I was checking out I noticed the Water Jasmine had two trunks growing half way up the tree very close together. I mentioned to him and he said he'd take one off and the next thing I knew he's cut it off and put cut paste over the cut and I stuck the stalk in the dirt to propagate. He began showing me how to keep it pruned and I was entranced walking him snip the tips of the branches explaining as he did so. He was working with a shiny stainless steel instrument and I was entranced. He was sold out of it...(He's having trouble getting shipments from Japan) but it was fun just watching him snip away.