Generally, as a plant of bonsai, the old stump with short growth and dense branches and leaves should be selected, and attention should be paid to avoid pests and diseases, and the varieties with high growth should not be selected.
Wild Bauhinia can be excavated in the mountains, mostly under the mountain miscellaneous wood forest or beside the creek. After excavation, it is cultivated by embryo cultivation, and then it is transferred to the basin for cultivation and processing after the root growth recovers.
Bauhinia bonsai generally uses deep glazed pottery basin or Bauhinia pottery basin. It is common to use square, round and oval basins, and sometimes shallow rectangular basins can also be selected.
The color of the basin is the best with light yellow or cyan, which can set off with the purple red flowers full of branches, making it more beautiful.
Bauhinia potted landscape has low requirements for soil quality, and can be adapted to slightly acid or alkaline soil. The potted plants should be cultivated with rotten leaf soil or weathered pond and river mud with sand and rice husk ash.
Bauhinia potted landscape is usually planted between February and March in spring. When planting, the main root and the long root system should be cut short, and the branches should be cut properly, leaving only 3-4-year-old branches as the backbone.
The whole posture of Bauhinia bonsai mostly adopts the processing modeling method of mainly cutting and supplemented by binding.
Generally, it is only necessary to properly climb the main stem into the required posture, and it is more convenient and free to climb with metal wire, which is better in the rainy season after flowering.
The branch modeling is carried out by pruning and climbing, and it is also better to be processed after flower. The Bauhinia bonsai modeling mainly includes inclined dry type, curved dry type, vertical branch type, jungle type, etc. the natural shape is also good, full of purple flowers, very beautiful.
