Caring For Bonsai Trees – When Do They Leave the Training Pot?
It was coming into spring, and I thought it would be good to freshen up things around home. I had been looking at some of the pots available for bonsai and I thought it would be nice to update the plastic pot my bonsai was in. The plastic pot was a little plain and I wanted to showcase what I had learnt about caring for bonsai trees by getting a brighter pot. I wanted to choose a pot that would complement my tree as the pot is considered as much part of the art-form as the tree itself. I had read that the tree itself contributes to one half of the composition, the pot completes the overall image. Although I wanted the colour and texture of a pot to match a characteristic of the tree, I was to find out that choosing the style or look of the pot is not that important in the early stages of caring for bonsai trees when you are simply focusing on keeping it healthy and miniature. As we know, bonsai trees are grown in small pots, or trays, so as to bind the roots and keep the tree small. I
