Making and maintaining weeping begonia bonsai

Making of Weeping Begonia Bonsai

Prepare the soil

When making a bonsai of weeping crabapple, you need to choose a suitable flowerpot.

Generally speaking, you can choose a medium-sized, deep flowerpot, which can be square or round. When choosing a flower pot, purple clay pots or glazed clay pots are better. The shape and color of the flower pot should be coordinated with the tree shape and flower color of the weeping crabapple.

Soil is also very important. When potting, you generally need to use loose and fertile soil, preferably leaf mold and garden soil, add some sand, and you can add some bone meal as base fertilizer.

Weeping Begonia Bonsai Shape

Modeling options

When making bonsai, you can shape it according to the shape of the tree. Generally, it can be made into a slanting trunk style, cliff style or curved trunk style. It can be shaped according to actual needs.

Generally, when shaping the bonsai of weeping crabapple, brown silk is used for climbing and pruning is needed. Bonsai can be made during the dormant period of the weeping crabapple or after it blooms.

Weeping Begonia Bonsai Care

It should be noted that the brown wire used for shaping the bonsai of weeping begonia needs to be removed in time to avoid the formation of trapped wires, which will affect the growth of the weeping begonia.

It should also be noted that regular pruning of branches and leaves is necessary to make the plant flourish and improve its ornamental value.