Starting A Bonsai Nursery

Starting your first bonsai is an exciting hobby to begin.
Starting a bonsai nursery. At wolf trap nursery we are well known for our roses. This is a unique art form because your canvas is alive and ever changing. Step one purchase tree seeds or seedlings. The staff at your local garden supply store will be able to help you if you re unsure.
We start the season with over 200 of them just waiting to spread their beauty and fragrance to your yard. Producing trained bonsai trees that are two to five years old is a good niche for most small growers as the retail prices are reasonable compared to more mature trees so there is more customer demand. Before starting a bonsai tree make sure the species you ve chosen can live in your area especially if you plan on having an outdoor tree. You don t need a huge field to start a bonsai business.
Buying bonsai nursery stock is a fast way of propagating a tree and you can start right away with training it. Just a small place will suffice the need. From bonsai pots and soil to starters and finished bonsai we have one of the largest selections in northern virginia. Of course they are small and you can even start selling them as soon they are well rooted.
Most tree seedlings are inexpensive averaging about 75 cents each. This project takes a landscaping bush purchased at lowes for 16 98 and starts its training as a bonsai specimen in what s known as a training box to start to make the roots the right shape for a more shallow pot. One particularly beginner friendly variety of bonsai tree is the juniper. Here you ll find soil and.
When you re just starting out tree seedlings make more sense because you ll have salable trees and profits about two years sooner than when growing from seed. It involves building the box itself pruning with root pruning and potting the tree. You can start on a small piece of land in your backyard and a size of a picnic table can carry about 150 bonsai. Growing bonsai from nursery stock prebonsai nursery stock are young garden plants also called prebonsai that sometimes have great qualities for bonsai purposes.
After the trees are one to three years old they are ready to sell or train. Starter trees can be grown from seed or for a faster start from plug purchased from a wholesale tree seedling nursery.