succulent bonsai

[JaneO]

Thanks Colin and all. I personally love Tina's plant regardless of blue pot and I, too, would give it a good home! I was informed that it is easier to do outside bonsai rather than indoor? Don't know if that is true but for us, we are stuck with indoor mostly. I want to attempt an aeonium but would It be cheating simply to insert new cutting in small pot and wait and see? And gradually cut it into shape? Not sure that this would be classed as bonsai at all. Thanks Jane

[Jim_Mercer]

I have to admit to having a few plants in bonsai pots but none of them have had any training done.

[Colin Walker]

Thanks Colin and all. I personally love Tina's plant regardless of blue pot and I, too, would give it a good home! I was informed that it is easier to do outside bonsai rather than indoor? Don't know if that is true but for us, we are stuck with indoor mostly. I want to attempt an aeonium but would It be cheating simply to insert new cutting in small pot and wait and see? And gradually cut it into shape? Not sure that this would be classed as bonsai at all. Thanks Jane

Jane, woody stemmed aeoniums don't need much care to get them to look bonsai'd. I trim the roots of rooted cuttings, pop them into shallow pots, and bob's your uncle! Look back at my first pic of A. castello-paivae which is little more than a year-old rooted cutting. Once flowering's over it'll need some stem pruning to get it back into a good shape. The smaller-leaved spp. are best, such as A. haworthii, decorum, sedifolium, smithii, etc. I've not yet tried A. leucoblepharum from The Yemen, but after it appears on the show bench this Friday I'll take some cuttings, 'cos this is well-branched, has small rosettes and a knarled, woody stem - just ideal, with a lovely dark-red mid stripe to the leaves. Just the bees knees.

[Herts Mike]

I tend to use Bonsai pots for appropriate plants rather than trying to train them Bonsai style.

[Colin Walker]

I have to admit to having a few plants in bonsai pots but none of them have had any training done.

Hi Jim,

That looks great.

[Colin Walker]

I tend to use Bonsai pots for appropriate plants rather than trying to train them Bonsai style.

Hi Mike,

These look great, but how's about a bit of stem training or pruning for the pelargoniums?

[Herts Mike]

They do get pruned Colin. I'll take some pics.

[Colin Walker]

They do get pruned Colin. I'll take some pics.

Excellent Mike. Whoops, sorry, think I sent a similar reply twice.

[Jim_Mercer]

I'm not sure you can bonsai an Adromischus so perhaps I shall have to find something else to put in this pot...

[Herts Mike]

I like that Jim. Nice colour match.