Bonsai in fall color

[Steeldrifter 0]

You know fall is here when the bonsai trees start turning colors. Couple of my trees in full fall splendor in my backyard at the moment.

[mikechell 0]

Those are beautiful. So easy to rake up after, too.

 

This time of year is when a lot of people lose their Bonsai. They still need water, they need the dormancy of winter. The trick is to provide those requirements, but they can't be allowed to freeze solid or dry out.

 

I've heard of people putting theirs in a refrigerator for a month, but I never did. Where I lived at the time, the winters were mild enough to leave the trees outside under plastic "domes".

 

Thank you for the pictures, Steve.

[Steeldrifter 0]

I am going to start building a cold frame for them in the next few weeks. The tropicals are now inside under tube lights for the winter, but these two, my boxwood, Japanese quence. and althea are going to have to live in a cold frame for the winter months outside so they can go dormant.

[Spanky29ca 0]

Very nice, do these types of trees flower in the spring as well Steve?

[Steeldrifter 0]

 

Some of them do Lance. For instance the tree in the very first picture of actually an Azalea which is a very profuse bloomer and puts on quite of display in the spring when it flowers with bright pink blooms. This is a picture of it from this past spring.

[mikechell 0]

[Spanky29ca 0]

wow those little trees are really pretty in both spring and fall