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Japanese Beech

Japanese beech

Beeches are wonderful rural deciduous trees, coming from the northern hemisphere. Japanese Beech is different from the European species for its smaller, narrow and sharp leaves and for its thin and light trunk. In bonsai growing, Beeches are often cultivated in group to create the serene atmosphere of a Beech forest. The deep reddish colour of the foliage in autumn is its main feature. Dried leaves stay on the Japanese Beech during the whole winter, just until the opening of the new buds in spring.

 

Japanese beech
 
Detail
Detail

   
Exposure
Exposure
 

Sunlight, half light in summer. Shelter the young foliage from the wind.

 

Watering
Watering
 

Everyday during the whole vegetative season. Try not to wet the leaves in sunny days, because they suffer burns. Water it less frequently in winter, anyway do not let the soil get dry.

 

Fertilizing
Fertilizing
 

Do not fertilize it for a month after the opening of the buds, then once every two weeks until late summer.

 

Repotting
Repotting
 

In spring, in alternate years until the tree is 10 years old; later when the roots fill in the pot. Use base mould.

 

Pruning
Pruning
 

In spring, pinch the new shoots to two couples of leaf buds, using your fingers. Remove just the big leaves during the whole vegetative season: a complete trimming operation is not advisable.

 

Propagation
Propagation
 

By fresh seeds in autumn or by stratified seeds in spring.

Bonsai styles

Suitable for Formal and Informal Upright, Slanting, Double Trunk, Common Stump, Group styles. Suitable for mean-big bonsai specimens.

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