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Thu, Jun 3, 10 at 16:53
| I have several Desert Rose plants, and one has seeds. I already know they grow in shallow containers, so I was wondering if they can be kept even smaller as bonsais.
Also, I have live oak trees coming up from acorns all over my yard. Can these be made into bonsai, or are they too vigorous? I thought oaks were slow growing, but these haven't proven to be, doubling in size in 12 years. I also have a few surinam cherry seedlings, and one orange jasmine. I've only done a ficus once, nothing else, so I'm pretty new to this. |
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| All are used for bonsai. The 'oaks' are very different from e.g. English or even pin oaks, but are great for bonsai. Growing quickly is not a bad thing at all as most of us wish our trees would grow quickly so that we can then (as is done for most bonsai) cut them back to regrow new branches, and have the older, fatter trunks to make them look mature and interesting. Bonsai are usually not grown "up", but chopped down and then worked on in various ways to get them to look like grown trees rather than "sticks-in-pots". |
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