Bonsai Gardening - The Peaceful Living Art
Bonsai gardening is an old traditional art in China and Japan. It involves the shaping of a plant so that it remains small and takes on particular shapes and forms. Bonsai gardening is considered a meditative art and is highly specialized. That does not mean to say that bonsai gardening should be left to experts and artists and people who simply enjoy it cannot participate, they can.
What is the attraction to bonsai gardening
Bonsai gardening holds a fascination, a draw for many people. It is amazing how it is possible to take a plant, which in nature would be ten, twenty even forty feet tall and groom it carefully into a miniature version. Some bonsai are passed down generation-to-generation and carefully cultivated. There are known bonsai to be 75 even 100 or more years old, which have been carefully cared for by people who are masters in bonsai gardening.
The attraction to bonsai is they have a beautiful delicate quality. They are small, though thee are some bonsai that make it to be over 2 feet tall. There are also a number of specialized tools that are used with bonsai in order to carefully shape and prune the plant in order obtain the size and shape. This includes pruning the roots as well as branches and leaves. There are varieties of styles in which bonsai are traditional cultivated into. These are usually based on what looks best for the particular type of plant that is being used.
The reasons these styles are used are to show off the best qualities that the particular tree or plant has to offer. Whether these features have to do with the trunks, the leaves, or the way the branches spread out. The idea is to create something that is pleasing to the eye. It is done carefully through planning. It can be relaxing to sit and let the plant tell you which shape it wants to go in and then bring that shape out through the various tools used in cultivating bonsai.
There are also several sizes of bonsai, which should be considered as part of the attraction. These sizes have class names and specific qualifications. This means that the bonsai in order to make a classification must be a minimum of so high but not higher than the maximum number for the classification. These classifications are tiny, small, medium, and medium to large, and large size groups.
