Gardening Reference

"Japanese White Pine"

How to care for Pinus Parviflora and Pentaphylla

The Japanese White Pine requires careful attention to maintain its health and train it as a bonsai. When you consider White Pine, you must learn cleaning techniques, growth, re-potting, soil, pruning, wiring, water, spray, feeding, etc. In addition, you want to consider peat, pests, disease, and more. Now, we cannot go into extensive details, however I can provide you a few helpful tips to get you started in growing Japanese White Pines as bonsai.

How to clean:
Cleaning the plants is easy. Use your “thumb and index finger” to pluck the aged pine needles. The pine needles often turn yellowish during the fall. Next, prune the internal undergrowth or foliage and get rid of any decaying and/or injured sections. As well, get rid of any debris or decaying elements from the soil. Finally, you have cleaned your Japanese White Pine; however, you will need to move ahead. Remember the growth of the Japanese Whites is a slow process. Read more…

“Bonsai Variants”

Variants of Bonsai Semi-cascade, Cascade, Moyogi, etc, include Broom and Literati. Broom elms are American-based trees, which its trunk extends in a straight line on a single growth. Its circlet has a selection of minute twigs, which glow and form the shape of a broom. Broom bonsai’s are similar to Asian trees, which are cultivated for resisting Dutch elm illness, and are the Genus Zelkova. Learn more about Japanese Greybark Elm seeds to relate to the Broom Bonsai.

Literati trees have elongated, small in width trunks. The trunk grows in a straight line, slants, and/or curves somewhat. At the upper section of the tree, about a third up, branches grow from the tree, and near the top, the branches balance someone at a point.

Variants of bonsai include Italian Cypress, which is one of the Grove series. The tree grows up to 22 inches. Pistachio Grove grows up to 18 inches. Pistachio is an ancient, small Asian tree. The Mediterranean, Asian tree is a member of the cashew family, and yields hard-shell nuts. The kernel is edible. Pistachio Vera is its Latin name.

Jin or Driftwood is another variant of bonsai. Jin may have received its name from Islamic magic spirits, which the mythology of humans and animals take on forms that makes it mischievous of its supernatural powers. The notion of Jin, since it is a broken branch, could represent the soul that forms into spirits, and dies. Since Jin means, “God,’ it is likely that the Jin tree requires careful attention. Jin trees has a trunk and branches that when the elements pass on, it is used or forms driftwood. I mean don’t quote me on this theory, yet after checking a brief background it seems that this logic makes sense.
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