I've always wanted a bonsai tree....but this rose is serving me quite nicely as a subsitute. I've been bending it's branches and pruning it for a few months now and I'm getting interesting results in the branch formation, as well as a lot of new growth. Roses are like tomatoes which are honestly like weed plants, they like being abused a little.
My rose plant goes in cycles and it's in a growth cycle, meaning it's focusing on new foliage and not flowers. That's why it doesn't look like much but a weird thorny bush to the untrained eye.
It's like a chess game but with a plant. You bend a branch and a few days later go back and see if it stayed or not. Sometimes there's a new stalk ready to be bent down, sometimes you need to prune some leaves to allow more light to get in. Every day I make a move and so does the rose bush.
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You really have an eye for beautiful things around us. Nature lover indeed.
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I also think Bonsai is related to Ginseng Root, one of my favorite tonic herbs
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From my understanding there are actually several different trees including gingko biloboa that you can use these techniques on to get a bonsai tree.
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If you want to learn more about the art of Bonsai I can teach you the basics! I bet you can find some good Yamadori (collected wild specimens) in some abandoned lots around there. Especially if it is dry, you can find some really good, old-looking, weathered trunks!
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Its something I'm sure I'll venture more into at some point.
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Oh, that is looking lovely. Keep with it, you've have a great specimen. I happened to form a rosebush by accident one time that turned out great. I laid some heavy metal pieces against a fence the rose was growing on. Time got away from me and when I went back to retrieve the metal, the rose had grow around a few pieces, forming all kinds of loops and bends. I was lucky to not break any of the stems. That turned into the coolest rose bush ever. I think it was a tropicana tea rose, if I remember right.
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It's a great metaphor in life. When life cuts you down, pump out another shoot and keep growing.
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I like that! Lord knows, I'm always growing new shots, haha.
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Flowering plants are lush, will be more beautiful when he has interest
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cool plants...have a pizza on me :)
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Great works, I wish you success
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Very interesting approach!
I could never imagine a rose like a bonsai.
Keep us posted with the progress.
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