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<\/a>A Beautiful Bonsai Oak Specimen<\/p>\nSo what have I done?! I decided to try and grow my own!! Goodness only know’s why because I doubt it’ll even look like a Bonsai within a decade but I’m going to try. I was gardening at a clients last year when I found a lovely little Pear Tree sapling, pale green leaves, dark bark and thought it could be just the piece. Transporting is very carefully home I planted it up and am pleased to say that a year on and its looking very healthy. It is still fairly small and then trunk is still very thin but with a few good growing months I would think that I’ll be ready to start pruning and shaping it into my very own Bonsai!<\/p>\n
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Hopefully my Bonsai to be!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’d never really paid much attention to Bonsai before last year, then I saw a documentary piece on Gardeners World and later saw an amazing display at the Chelsea Flower Show and my interest was caught. I hadn’t realised before just how old some bonsai tree’s were and that Bonsai was the art of creating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1013],"tags":[82,386,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theguidetogaygardening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}