Any gardeners here? Anyone else love succulents? Bonsai?

[Lancelot]

I'm very interested in this Wisteria Bonsai you speak of! I have a pretty big garden and love plant projects. I have a huge Wisteria, and several small ones freshly grown from his seeds. Is is possible to make a bonsai out of the babies? Or must it be done on a thicker, rooted cutting?

[MiRaja]

I'm very interested in this Wisteria Bonsai you speak of! I have a pretty big garden and love plant projects. I have a huge Wisteria, and several small ones freshly grown from his seeds. Is is possible to make a bonsai out of the babies? Or must it be done on a thicker, rooted cutting?

Either or.  You can start with new growth, or you can try an air cutting with established, thick growth.  If you'd like to know how to do an air cutting, just look it up online.  It's very easy, it just takes a bit of time. 

[moonsugar]

Wysteria is my favourite flower. Can you really grow it as a bonsai! I had no idea!

It's a very popular bonsai, actually.  One of the most striking bonsai I've ever seen in person was a wisteria.  It was huge for a bonsai, but very old.  About 4 foot wide and three tall and looked like a miniature hobbit tree covered in purple flowers.  Just google Wisteria Bonsai, and I swear you won't be disappointed.    They do well for bonsai because they're tough and hardy, but they also like to be pruned and only makes them grow faster.  And they grow fast as it is.

Oh my word, you weren't kidding. I'm in love.

[melodys_angel]

Alright hun, as long as you know

They wouldn't even let seed that were bought from a store come through o.o (a friend was going to send over some heirloom tomato seeds she got at a store) and I believe they actually contacted my brother saying that they had to destroy whatever plant he was waiting on.

[Beldarna]

I am gardening on my balcony. It's fully glassed in facing south so it's basically a green house summertime. I'm not into bonsai but this year I'm trying to grow baby tomatoes and it goes really well. I also have some herbs, like rosemary. One year I tried basil but it burned pretty badly. Next year I'm aming for strawberries as well. Besides that I'm having sunflowers and roses and some other small flowers as well.

Me too!  I have a very small porch garden, that's why I like succulents, because they're small, and I can make displays with them!  Yes, basil can burn, but have you tried Thai Basil?  It looks quite a bit different, and it tastes a smidge different, but you can use it traditionally in Thai curry or use it in Pesto still, and it's delicious.  However, unlike Basil, it can take even full Florida sun.  It also gets pretty purple flowers on it.  This is my second year growing it, and it's about to bloom right now.  Mint is also a good herb that likes to grow hot and sunny, as is oregano. 

I've actually seen and smelled on Thai Basil but never tried it, which I should if it's as good as you say. I love basil in my tomatosallads. I think I had some peppery mint last year that grew pretty good, but sadly a lot of herbs I like are easy to burn while the ones I don't like, want's the sun and heat. The Mint is cool and all, but nothing I use. But a herb with purple flowers would fit right in.

[teacher316]

I love succulents! Don't they call some of them hens and chicks? My grandmother(who passed away) grew some in an army boot and I still have it after 5 years! One year it grew a stalk and had a flower on it which I didn't know they even had flowers. It was so neat:)

[mlp4me]

No bonsai here. I have a hen and chick that survived the horrible winter that we had (had close to a dozen in the pot). I have a jade plant that I fear has died. I've re-planted some of the leaves, but the top just started to bend and wilt but the leaves were still so green...