Fir tree bonsai requires regular fertilization during the growing season. Use a balanced fertilizer such as 10-10-10 or 12-12-12, and apply it once a month.

A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

Peter Hlousek with his prize yew tree. Though bonsai growing as an activity only sprouted in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, according to Bonsai Society President Alex Amendola, it has ...