Collecting Bonsai From The Wild Uk

Remove any surface vegetation from around the base of the trunk so that only the tree is being taken with you.
Collecting bonsai from the wild uk. 4 years 6 months ago 18008 i would recommend bonsai inspirations 1 and 2 by harry harrington lots of info there on uk yamadori and everything else that beginner needs to learn. Choose a rather large pot with a drainage hole and fill it up to with a mixture of fine gravel and akadama in a ratio of to read the bonsai soil article for more detailed information on soil mixtures for different species of trees climates etc. In the field 1. Anyone who does not have much experience with trees and does not know with certainty how and if it possible to keep a collected tree alive ought not even attempt it not even with the mandatory permit.
Collecting bonsai material in the uk. Collect some of the original soil mixture where you dug out the tree which should be used to prepare a soil mixture for the tree. The collector of bonsai may face danger during the hunting season generally in autumn so be particularly careful in this season. Unfortunately the species is notoriously difficult to collect from the wild not least due to its habit of producing sucker growth meaning that several plants will often be found to be growing from an inter connected root system which when severed can leave single collected plants with insufficient rootage.
I was fortunate enough to be given a bundle of nursery planting stock. Begin by making a circular trench. I visualise it as a literati style. These are healthy young trees that have been grown to sold and planted out in the thousands so don t have that degree of attention that bonsai seedlings would have lavished on them these are cell grown alder.
A life collecting wild bonsai. Dig up larger trees with a shovel but a trowel can be used for smaller specimens. Autumn is often the best time to collect wild trees as long as you have somewhere to keep them away from frosts over winter. I plan to invest in a heat bed to help my collected trees as well.