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- Robinia as a Bonsai - Far Eastern flair for your garden
- Bring the bonsai into shape
- Cut robinia to bonsai
- Be careful with the wire
- Further care tips
The robinia can also be trained as a bonsai
Robinia as a Bonsai - Far Eastern flair for your garden
Keeping large deciduous trees as bonsai with low growth is becoming more and more modern. Would you like to try a robinia? Although the optimal suitability for the Japanese growth form in this plant as controversial, as it has long spring leaves, but it is well worth the effort in any case. Try it. The following instructions will give you useful help.
Bring the bonsai into shape
Regarding the already mentioned difficulty, to bind the long spring leaves, you must not keep their Robinie as Bonsai too small. A height of one meter is recommended. Then the fan pages again give a coherent overall picture. Suitable designs for the robinia are
Cut robinia to bonsai
A small, shaping cut is possible throughout the year. Nevertheless, the main radical section should not be made until autumn. At this time, the robinia ceases the production of new shoots. Thus, less cuts out of the branches when cutting injuries. A robinia makes up to 23 leaflets on one leaf. Cut these back to three to four fiddles. In addition, the deciduous tree tends to form Wurzelausläufern. For the bonsai attitude these are uninteresting and should be removed immediately at the base.
Be careful with the wire
With regular pruning the forming wire is not really necessary with the Robinie. If you would like to apply this measure anyway, it is best to start in June. However, you must remove the wire after a year at the latest so that it does not grow into the wood. Be very careful. The shoots of Robinia are extremely fragile.
Further care tips
Place your bonsai robinia in a sunny spot. Strong winds should not expose the deciduous tree. The regular watering and a fertilizer in every other week are also part of the care. Optimally, enrich the substrate with bonsai unit earth.