Bonsai Care Guides
Species-by-species care references for trees that live outdoors, all year round. Watering, soil, repotting windows, winter protection and how each species responds to pruning — the same schedules Luca follows in the nursery, written down so you can look them up when it matters.
Japanese Maple Bonsai Care (Acer palmatum)
The species we grow most and know best. Watering rhythm, leaf protection, repotting and seasonal work for every palmatum cultivar in the collection — the guide every maple owner should bookmark.
Conifers
Pines, junipers, spruces and the deciduous conifers. Slower to show problems and slower to forgive them — with conifers, the care calendar matters more than daily attention: candle work on pines, foliage windows on junipers, and watering that never lets the roots sit wet.
Juniperus (juniper bonsai)
Which junipers, the essential care, and how a juniper is built year by year
Juniperus chinensis 'Itoigawa'
Itoigawa shimpaku juniper
Pinus sylvestris
Scots pine
Pinus mugo
Mugo pine
Picea abies
Norway spruce
Larix decidua
European larch
Taxodium distichum
Bald cypress
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Dawn redwood
Deciduous & Flowering Species
Maples, elms and the flowering species. Faster feedback than conifers — leaves tell you within days when something is wrong — but they ask more of you in growing season: more water, more pruning response to manage, and leaf protection through summer heat.
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