Bonsai Basics

Fort Collins Nursery is a year-round garden center, helping people with their gardens and landscapes since 1932. We offer a variety of fun events to educate our customers and to celebrate our plant-loving community.

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Learn to create Bonsai using nursery plants. This class will cover soil mix, material selection, basic techniques, design and more.

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This workshop will focus on using nursery plants to create Bonsai. For indoor plants, ficus are a great choice while traditional species such as pines, junipers and spruces must be grown outdoors year round. The workshop will cover soil mix, how to select material, and basic techniques such as wiring and pruning. It will also explain root pruning, which is a necessary first step to prepare a nursery plant for a bonsai pot. Finally, the workshop will explain bonsai design, and how to make a small tree look like an ancient giant of the forest in miniature.Presented by Dr. Darrell WhitleyDarrell Whitley has been growing bonsai since 1992 (and the first bonsai he created in 1992 is still alive). In 2006 he was named the Rocky Mountain Bonsai Society Artist of the year, and in 2018 he was the featured Bonsai Artist of the year at the Denver Botanic Gardens. He lived and worked in Japan in 2019. Darrell has conducted a number of bonsai workshops in different parts of Colorado. Dr. Whitley is also a member of the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University.

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