DALAT – VIETNAM . BONSAI GARDEN IN NARROW SPACE AND NO SOIL AS GROWN ORCHID

DALAT – VIETNAM . BONSAI GARDEN IN NARROW SPACE AND NO SOIL AS GROWN ORCHID

Ngo Ngan Oai ,He is my brother . He was posted some trees on this forum . This is a bonsai garden on narrow space He is owner , grown tree and train it become bonsai . His bonsai include Ajalea and Ficus .. and all trees grown no ground ( no soil as grown orchid ) . I posted some trees in garden to share with everyone.

Small garden, but beautiful trees !

We can't have such healthy ficus and trees with so nicely woven roots where I live. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice collection of azaleas and Ficus. Your brother does vey good work.
jerry
www.bonsaihunk.us

Very nice work. Definitely a case for growing Benjamina fig in tall trunk, somewhat weeping leaves style to mimic being near water,coastline. Dustin Mann

Wow! What a great collection of trees, i really like some of those azaleas!
How long has he been growing trees?
Thanks and regards Nick

Hi friends , thanks for sharings.
His Azalea bonsais are about 15 years old. He have grown bonsai based on ideas such as :
1/ a bonsai is not always an old tree , but a tree trained to resemble an old years tree , has natural view and must be art. Because , to own many old bonsais , you must have much money or your life is over one hundred years old ,
2/ You must choose trees adapted with weather in growing place .
2/ To create a bonsai , you must understand tree life to grow it well.
3/ Only when you grew tree good , you train it become bonsai , if not do not waste time.He grew good more 15 Ajalea species but some species stop growing due to hard to live.
4/ You create bonsai according to your ideas , learning but no imitation.

I enjoyed looking at them. Welldone , I would love to own just one of them.

Thank you for the photos! Very impressive and beautiful work on those roots and specimens in general. Those woven roots are amazing. Very good!

I like that he is focusing on root over rock and exposed root styles .I have seen very little of the exposed root style and it is refreshing to see such examples .

Hi Seth EllwoodView , he has about 150 Ajalea bonsais ( in another place ) with many root styles and trunks . In fact , next years , root clusters will grow up to trunks and foot of tree. So , root clusters with curved line will become a curved trunk and a foot of tree. When you raise them well, the progress would be fast.

Very impressive trees. So what substrate he grows them in? Orchid mix?

These trees are very nice. I like the exposed roots. Your brother is very talented. Did he start the azaleas from cuttings? The ficus are lovely. Every once in a while, we can find ficus with air roots that are grown for the indoor lanscape scene. But they are "few and far between". In other words, it is very hard to find ficus suitable for bonsai unless you happen to live where they can be grown outdoors all year long. Or, you need lots of money, as you said.
Salut, Todd

Wow!! Love all those roots!!!! Great trees!!

Hi Jingal . In Dalat city , many tree Fern grew in nature , almost orchid gardeners used it to grow orchid . Soft root fibre clusters and trunk of Cibotium barometz ( maybe ) grow very good but more water and leaf fertilizer ( hard fibre fern not use ( another fern species )).
Noun. Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic.
Exact synonyms: Scythian Lamb
Generic synonyms: Tree Fern
Group relationships: Cibotium, Genus Cibotium
Fern grow good for Azalea , Ficus , Pinus , Camelia...

DALAT – VIETNAM . BONSAI GARDEN IN NARROW SPACE AND NO SOIL AS GROWN ORCHID
Hi Todd Ellis , friends . Thanks for sharing
He grow Ajalea , Camelia , Ficus … from branch cuttings and branchs not too old nor too young with substances help make roots as AIA , AIB ( or same substanes ).. But to make air root , all these must grow in fern material . You see some photos below to see that them grow good for all tree genus.