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While gardening is a common hobby for people staying indoors, growing indoor trees is an even more interesting and challenging. Now the concept of growing flora, as large as trees inside the home sounds like an absurd idea. But, this is not a silly intent anymore as a Juniper bonsai tree can turn your dream of having greenery around the rooms true. However, if you are fond of undergrowth and little shrubs that grow like shamrock over the stones, then you can select Juniper Procumbens nana.
Extremely beautiful to look at, both the plants make excellent additions in living rooms, bed rooms and balconies. You can either place them on your bedside plateau or beside the windows or in hanging plant pots in the veranda, they simply lighten up the ambience with their presence. A Juniper bonsai tree is a living miniature model of large and old trees that have been surviving for years.
They fit comfortably in small plant tubs and yield fruits and flowers like a regular Juniper tree, only in smaller size. You can however, do a bit of decoration with the Juniper Procumbens nana by letting them sprawl around the stones and pebbles put in the tub.
These beautiful floras are indeed very rare to see in homes and are highly appreciated by the visitors. Besides beautifying the rooms, they also purify the air of the room by generating fresh oxygen. As claimed by the scientists, a Juniper bonsai tree and a Juniper Procumbens nana are capable of filtering the pollution in the air and reduce the mal components in the air. Growing bonsai trees is a classic art that requires dedication, perseverance and love for green plants. The Procumbens nana shrubs are fresh green in color and look extremely fresh, hence, good for the eyes.
Normally, these bonsai plants do not demand too much of a maintenance job. They are to be watered once regular that can vary depending upon the type and requirment of the concerned plant. Those exposed to sunlight regularly do not require a lot of water. A maximum of 6 hours of sun exposure is enough for the plants to survive. However, you should check the soil of your Juniper bonsai tree to ensure that it has enough moisture for the plant. You should not let it go dry by watering religiously. Watering should be done in a way by sprinkling water from the top of the leaves without disturbing its soil base. The stipulation of a Juniper tree and Juniper Procumbens nana differ, so you need to adjust accordingly.
However, bonsai trees can be grown outdoor as well. But, keeping them indoor keeps them aloof from the natural perils like worms, rain, snow, storm, heat, etc. that can harm the trees potentially. This species of trees is particularly very sensitive and needs endorsement from the harsh elements.
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How to Plant a Tree
Do you have a massive blank spot on your lawn that just doesn’t look right? Want to see some different seasonal colors with your landscaping? Think about adding a tree for a visual break and select one that turns color in the start season.
Instructions
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Fort Worth gardeners often turn to one of the maple tree varieties that give golden to red leaf colors when the cooler fall weather arrives. These varieties tolerate our hot summers as long as they are kept well watered during June, July and August, the hottest months. Choose a good healty tree specimen that will fill in that blank spot on your grassy area and tolerate your region’s weather.
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Things You’ll Need:
Good specimen Maple Tree in container
Shovel
Soil mix from bags
Water and bucket
String or rope
2 by 2 wood stakes 42 inches long
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Choose a Maple Tree (or other specimen) according to your budget. Choose aesthetically amusing and healthy tree in container from a nursery or Home Store that guarantees plants for one year. The larger caliper (diameter of tree, usually the taller the tree and the more costly the tree). By choosing to plant in October near the end of the month, you should find specimens you want on sale. You will also have the full twelve months for the tree to experience a full growing season before determining if it is going to make it. If you want to plant in primeval spring, select specimen that has not broken its dormancy yet.
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Dig hole for tree twice the size of the container, or two times the container diameter. Check the depth of the hole by laying a shovel handle on the ground crossways the tree in the container after is put in dug hole. If the shovel handle fits level crossways contianer, depth of the hole is ok (later, when planting the container tree, you will want to backfill some of the excavated soil to compensate for the removal of the container and any soil from the root areas that is removed). Score the side edges of the hole with a shovel, hand spade or fork tool so that the tree roots have the capability to penetrate the soil at the sides of the hole, especially in some of the Fort Worth heavy-clay-content soils. Shake connector from the sod pieces and add them to excavated dirt from the hole dig. Set the sod pieces aside to use elsewhere on your lawn. The video on this page shows a good way to plant a tree.
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Remove tree root ball from container and loosen roots so they can spread. Be careful and do not break the main root structures, just break the smaller roots loose from the soil ball. Use your hands, not sharp tools. Let the soil that you remove start into the hole or onto the excavated soils and the soil mix to add around hole after root ball is put in hole. Place root ball with tree into hole and check depth again. Add soil in bottom of hole if necessary to make sure the tapered trunk of specimen tree will be just above topsoil level. Grant a couple of inches for any compaction of backfill soil over time. Water root ball of tree extremely well to prevent backfill at bottom of hole from absorbing too much water. If your soil is extremely dry, add some water to backfilled bottom of hole before placing tree root ball in hole. Place ball in hole, turn tree to desired aesthetic look and backtill around hole.
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Start backfilling soil mixture around tree ball in hole. Backfill completely around the tree ball. Use a soil mix which includes the excavated hole’s natural soil added to the shaken soil from the root structure ball and the new soil from nursery or tree supplier. Mix soil well and all around tree root ball ensuring that all root structures are well covered. If you think you need it and a Fort Worth nursery advocates it, add time-release fertilizer to soil mix, but not too much as it might shock the tree roots. After soil mix is backfilled around tree, use bucket and water backfill. Depending on size of hole, one or two buckets should suffice.
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Add mulch from nursery to top soil around tree trunk. Usually two inches to four inches of mulch will be sufficent. Avoid placing too much mulch adjacent to the circumference of the tree trunk. Leave that area with only a bare minimum of mulch to grant tree trunk bark to breathe. Maintain this cleared area as tree grows over several months. In very cold periods you can add mulch to protect this area during freezes and cold snaps. Remove when weather turns nice again.
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Stake tree with twine or small rope for full growing season. Use three equal spaced stakes around the newly-planted tree with twine/rope up on tree about three to four feet from ground. Use bowline knot (a knot used by Boy Scouts on tent poles) so that it grants tree to grow amd move and the knot can be adjusted as the tree trunk grows. Watch tree as it grows and loosen bowline knot, retie with more room as necessary. Remove stakes and lines when tree roots are established after a full growing season, or about a year.
Water tree about one inch once a week during entire year. Think about using a “treegator bag” for a trickle watering system. Place bag around tree hole and fill bag once per week. let water trickle down into mulch area. As tree limbs grow out away from trunk, switch to watering to tree’s drip line (point at which tree limbs extend, they match root structure below tree). hand or sprinkler this area equivalent of one inch per week. See article on measuring sprinkler water.
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Tips & Warnings
Tips and Warnings:
Visit several stores before making tree purchase, select only healthy specimen.
Save store receipt and planting id attach from tree in case you need to return them along with a unsuccessful tree piece.
Use sharp shovel.
Do not cut main roots or too many roots from root ball at bottom of container.
Do not over water or under water.
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bidiu_c, 5 months ago
Good article,thanks.
techpradeep, 5 months ago
Nice and Help full
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The following steps are the basic steps for transplanting a small to medium sized tree.
step 1
The absolute first thing you need to do is call your local gas, power and phone company to make sure there aren’t any pipes or lines where you are about to dig.
If the tree has a lot of green lawn around it you’ll want to trim your lawn down a few feet around the tree.
You need to figure out how far around the tree to dig, to do this you can measure how far it is from the ground to the lower branches of the tree. Depending on your type of tree this measurement usually gives you the diameter of the rootball you should dig up.
You should water the soil the day before to soften the ground and reduce stress to plant roots and help keep the root ball intact.
Step 2
Dig the new planting hole and have it ready before the transplant. Dig the hole 2-3 times as wide as the root ball, but no deeper. Make sure to water the hole before planting the root ball to help reduce transplanting shock.
Step 3
Using the measurements taken early you should be healthy to mark a circle around the base of the tree.
Standing inside the marked circle, start digging with a flat spade, keeping the grappling turned away from the plant. Continue digging around the plant. Dig progressively deeper, shaping the root ball as you go.
When you have cut around the plant down to the proper level to include the roots, start digging underneath the root ball.
Before slicing the root ball completely, place a tarp or sheet of burlap into the hole beside the ball. Dig under the ball and cut any last remaining roots below. Tilt the root ball over onto the tarp for wrapping and moving.
Always lift the plant from underneath, never by the trunk.
Roots must be kept moist or they will die. Any plant that can't be installed in its new location immediately after digging should be kept in the shade and the roots kept moist.
Make sure to water your newly transplanted tree until it’s roots are healthy to reestablish in it’s new location.