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Exotic Bonsai Choices To Add To Your Collection

Are you interested in something more adventurous in the art of bonsai gardening? If so, you need not be stuck with with the classical coniferous, deciduous or occasional fruit trees as the sole items in your collection. Your choices can range to the more exotic bonsai varieties which will help challenge your skills.

One superb alternative to the common bonsai is Wisteria, a native of China, Korea and Japan. In the wild, Wisteria can reach 30 feet or more in size. However, since Wisteria doesn’t conform to any of the normal bonsai styles, forming them into a bonsai can be an interesting challenge.

The Wisteria flowers are both beautiful and aromatic and come in a variety of colors, including blue, white, pink, and purple. Flowering in the Spring, they need lots of water with sufficient drainage and they do well in partial shade to full sun. Just before they bloom in the spring, you should provide them with a good amount of fertilizer, and once again in late summer before they shed their leaves.

Another good choice is Orange Jasmine which will provide a delight to the nose and beauty to the eye. Orange Jasmine bears a bright red fruit and fragrant, white blossoms.

Starting in early spring and continuing through mid-autumn, feed Orange Jasmine every three to four weeks. Except in the hotter summer months when a little more water is needed, only light watering is adequate for the remainder of the year.

Orange Jasmine is one of the few bonsai that can be and probably should be grown indoors since it does better in moderate shade and filtered sun light.

Mimosa, or silk trees as they are sometimes called owing to their long silky filaments, are as fragrant as either of the two choices above. Their lacy foliage and puffy flowers are also just as lovely.

Moderate water should be given to the Mimosa during the blooming season which is from late April to early July. However, care should be taken to avoid getting water on the flowers themselves, since the flowers will rapidly deteriorate when wet, much like a number of other flowering plants.

The Mimosa will be one of the larger bonsai in your collection. They grow rapidly, have large leaves and are very difficult to sustain at a very small size. So give them lots of room on the display bench.

An additional exotic bonsai is the Desert Rose which can turn an ordinary bonsai collection into an exciting full color display. The Desert Rose is a native of East Africa where it grows up to 10 feet tall and produces large, pink, trumpet-bowl flowers.

Very bushy, it makes an excellent design complement to the many trees in a standard bonsai set. They need lots of fresh air and ample sunshine, so keep them outside most of the year.

However, the Desert Rose is sensitive to cold, so they should be brought indoors in cold climates or during periods of cold weather as they will not thrive in temperatures below 10C (50F). With temperatures in the 10C-15C (50F-60F) range, they will lie dormant and healthy and during this period they will need very little water.

You should try your hand at some of these exotic beautiful and fragrant flowering plants to expand your horizon and further develop your bonsai gardening skills. They provide a nice contrast when placed among some of the more standard evergreens, such as, pines, junipers, and firs. Additionally, as they lose their leaves in the fall and bloom in the spring, you’ll have an interesting ever-changing display.

George Dodge provides bonsai gardening tips for beginning bonsai gardeners on his Bonsai Tree Gardening site where he encourages you to experiment with exotic bonsai choices to expand your collection. He has long enjoyed landscaping and gardening as a hobby.

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