Local Bonsai Club can teach you how to take better care of your trees
Bonsai is the art of growing ornamental, artificially dwarfed varieties of trees and shrubs in pots or containers in such a way that they look their most beautiful – even prettier than those growing in the wild.
The local bonsai club meet up on Saturdays to work on various trees to shape them into proper bonsai trees and help others develop their trees. They also teach the right way to wire and bend branches.
“It is a relaxing and rewarding hobby. The Chinese started with bonsai, and the Japanese refined it. It is a worldwide known hobby,’’ said one of the members, Marlene Visagie.
Although the word ‘Bon-sai’ is Japanese, the art it describes originated in the Chinese empire.
By the year 700 AD, the Chinese had started the art of ‘Pun-sai’ using special techniques to grow dwarf trees in containers.
Marlene would like to expand the club and try to work mostly on indigenous trees. “The purpose is to propagate three trees out of one. In the bags is peat moss, which must be wet all the time to create roots. After a season or two (if the roots developed), it will be cut off the mother plant, thus creating a new plant.”
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