Category: Bonsai Tips and Techniques

Running Deep

by Terry Davis
Terry Davis image by RDS

The idea we are taught of layering finer soil over coarser soil doesn’t work. Leon Snyder calls this a “perched water table”

Minnesota Wintering Tips and Tricks from MBS members

Let there be light! One word – give them lights. Don’t keep them in the dark. Keep azalea, boxwood, holly, and shimpaku junipers under lights. I think they do better with light as they are not kept cold enough to be completely dormant… I’d put all trees with foliage under lights if I could afford it.