home depot bonsai
I bought this bonsai tree from Home Depot a month or so ago. Wondering what kind it is (or if it is actually a bonsai) so I can look up care instructions. The leaves are waxy.
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I am really bad at ID'ing. I'm thinking it is a dracena--lucky bamboo. It is a house plant due to it being too tender for most of the USA.
Lucky bamboo can be a lovely house plant, but it aint bonsai.
The two characters that make up bonsai stand for tree + tray, for a woody plant in a shallow pot. An English ivy hits nearer to that mark than a lucky bamboo does.
I am really bad at ID'ing. I'm thinking it is a dracena--lucky bamboo. It is a house plant due to it being too tender for most of the USA.
Lucky bamboo can be a lovely house plant, but it aint bonsai.
The two characters that make up bonsai stand for tree + tray, for a woody plant in a shallow pot. An English ivy hits nearer to that mark than a lucky bamboo does.
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saundrals,
Another possibility might be Schefflera but I can't say for certain from your pictures. Have a look at this thread and compare yours to one I've been working on.
Norm
Another possibility might be Schefflera but I can't say for certain from your pictures. Have a look at this thread and compare yours to one I've been working on.
Norm
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Dwf Hawaiian umbrella = shefflera. We just call it umbrella plant, only the botanists know it as shefflera. It stays small for a long time, tolerates lower light levels and is fairly tolerant of abuse.
Bad points for it as a bonsai: You are limited in choices for styling; leaves are big and usually only near the top so no levels or tiers.
Just because a plant is in a pot does not make it a bonsai. Bonsai starters are potted plants until they are styled. Hacking a plant without consideration to how it is going to look a year or two later is not bonsai.
Bonsai requires patience grasshopper. A lot of thought should be going into it when you select and look at the tree to visualize what it can become not today or tomorrow, but a year, 5, or 10 years down the road. It is an art form that respects and tries to immitate nature not just chop it up. The tree that bends in the wind does not break. A bad pruning job on a tree can ruin it forever.
Bad points for it as a bonsai: You are limited in choices for styling; leaves are big and usually only near the top so no levels or tiers.
Just because a plant is in a pot does not make it a bonsai. Bonsai starters are potted plants until they are styled. Hacking a plant without consideration to how it is going to look a year or two later is not bonsai.
Bonsai requires patience grasshopper. A lot of thought should be going into it when you select and look at the tree to visualize what it can become not today or tomorrow, but a year, 5, or 10 years down the road. It is an art form that respects and tries to immitate nature not just chop it up. The tree that bends in the wind does not break. A bad pruning job on a tree can ruin it forever.