Exposing the roots further enhances the illusion of bonsai-like miniaturization.
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Recently, he entered one of his bonsai trees into the Costa Mesa Fine Arts Show.
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But bonsai trees are a living art form, the result of years of careful grooming.
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Stories referring to bonsai began to appear more frequently by the 17th century.
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Specialized bonsai tools are widely available from Japanese and Chinese sources.
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Show-goers also can bid on bonsai and other Japanese items in a Chinese auction.
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Moss is also used in bonsai to cover the soil and enhance the impression of age.
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One man holds the record for cultivating Vietnam's largest miniature bonsai tree.
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Gary Judd prepares a juniper tree for a bonsai show at his workshop in Rocklin.
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A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
Bonsai is a web-based CVS repository browser designed for large programming projects. It was initially developed to fill the Mozilla project's need for good tools to allow multiple developers to edit its extremely large codebase.
A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by restriction of its roots and by careful pruning
Japanese word (derived from the Chinese word penjing) meaning a tray garden.
The art of dwarfing trees by careful root and stem pruning coupled with root restriction.
Template:Audio (Template:Lang-ja, literally "potted plant". Template:Zh-cpl), is the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees by growing them in containers. While mostly associated with the Japanese form, "bonsai" originated in China and was originally developed from Chinese penjing. ...
Soil is primarily a loose, fast-draining mix of components, often a base mixture of coarse sand or gravel, fired clay pellets or expanded shale combined with an organic component such as peat or bark.
The art of growing carefully trained, dwarf plants in containers.
Training method in which plants are maintained at a small size and often set in miniature landscapes that dramatize primal forces of nature such as wind, gravity, and the passage of time.