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Bonsai Care
The bonsai care category includes topics like Watering, Fertilizing, Repotting and Bonsai Soil. You can also find information about the Pests commonly found on bonsai, and read Interviews with bonsai professionals.
Seasonal maintenance – removing flowers from dwarf flowering quince
Removing spent flowers every month helps quince grow and keeps them looking great.
Just in time for fall – pumpkin galls
Tiny wasps are responsible for the pumpkin-shaped galls that develop on the leaves of oak trees.
Insights from using a chemical injector to acidify the water for one year
An update about the past year’s experience using vinegar to acidify the water.
Diagnosing spots and twig dieback on a Japanese plum
Somewhere in the mid-1950s, my grandfather, Leo Dupuich, acquired a number of bonsai from a local landscaper and bonsai enthusiast named Jim Miyasaki. When my teenage father saw the trees, one stuck out to him – a Japanese plum. My dad cared for the tree for a number of years before giving it to my […]