{"id":221,"date":"2012-09-18T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:18:40","slug":"spring-at-shibui-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Spring at Shibui Bonsai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days are substantially longer now and the nights are getting warmer. The trees are feeling it too and have started growing new shoots for the coming season. <!--more-->The first to produce leaves this year was a trident maple. I love the red new shoots on tridents. As the leaves mature they will fade to green.\u00a0A few of the Chinese\u00a0elms have also produced fresh new leaves but these are a brilliant emerald green that will fade to a darker green as the leaves harden off. A small English elm is showing swollen buds but the larger\u00a0English elms\u00a0are still dormant. English elms are usually one of the last species to shoot here along with zelkova and gingko.<a href=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Seiju-mini-1-2012-9-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-223\" title=\"seiju mini 1\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Seiju-mini-1-2012-9--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/trident-maple-small-2012-9-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-231 alignleft\" title=\"trident maple\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/trident-maple-small-2012-9-21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/trident-maple-small-twin-2-2012-91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-232\" title=\"small trident twin trunk\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/trident-maple-small-twin-2-2012-91-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Seiju-small-2-2012-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-224 alignleft\" title=\"seiju mini twin trunk\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Seiju-small-2-2012-9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also produced a &#8216;first&#8217; this year &#8211; a\u00a0wisteria in a pot has flower buds swelling so I will be able to post pics of my very first flowering wisteria bonsai. I have had one wisteria for about 28 years that has stubbornly refused to flower despite trying all sorts of techniques to it. It has a great trunk and good branches and shape but I do wish it would produce even just a few of\u00a0those magnificent tresses of purple that make wisteria such a\u00a0stunning bonsai. Both these trees are seedlings. Wisteria is well known to take at least 7 years and often much longer to reach maturity and flower. If you want to grow a wisteria as bonsai and would like to see flowers on it I&#8217;d recomment buying one in flower or striking cuttings from a known flowering plant. Cuttings bring the maturity of the parent plant to the new plant and are capable of flowering in just a year or 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days are substantially longer now and the nights are getting warmer. The trees are feeling it too and have started growing new shoots for the coming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}