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Arnold Arboretum - Bonsai - Introduction
... the cultivation of native Japanese plants such as azaleas and maples was a pastime of the wealthy. Growing dwarf plants in containers was also popular, but by modern bonsai standards the container plants ... too deep. In this period, the term used for dwarf potted trees was hachi-no-ki, meaning "a tree in a pot." The term bonsai, literally meaning "planted in a container," seems ...
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Arnold Arboretum - Bonsai - Japanese Connection
... Japanese garden at Weld, and before that, in 1889, he brought two dwarf maples back from his first trip to Japan. But it was in 1913 that he became enchanted with bonsai ... for ...
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Arnold Arboretum - Bonsai - At the Arnold Arboretum
... lath house to display the collection during the growing season and a concrete-block unit for winter protection. The construction of the latter, which maintains temperatures between 33 and 35 ... curator. Over the Columbus Day weekend of 1986, the bonsai house was broken into and six plants were stolen, including three Japanese maples that were part of the original Larz Anderson Collection. Prompted ...
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Arnold Arboretum - Bonsai - Care
... bonsai; the techniques vary according to the species. The best time to prune is when the plants are producing new growth in early spring for deciduous plants, such as the cherries and japanese maples, in mid spring for pines and spruces, and in early to mid summer for the junipers and hinokis. At ...
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