azalea bonsai

Azalea bonsai the perfect flowering bonsai tree for a patio

A Chinese azalea is unlike other bonsai azaleas that bloom in the spring, the Chinzan can bloom frequently throughout the year with one or more pink blooms. Satsuki Azaleas are known for their prized flowers and small evergreen leaves this plant has always been the favored azalea bonsai for planting or container growing on the patio. Satsuki Azaleas are known for their many large 2″ salmon colored blooms which can flower frequently in late spring and summer. The plant pictured here is our top specimen at the nursery.

Click to go to the nursery for more details. These azaleas are 16 years old. The double arrangement is 19 inches by 9 inches and 11 inches tall.

Azalea Bonsai Tree Care

To keep any Azalea bonsai healthy, remove any dead flowers and leaves just like any other flowering plant. You should grow these bonsai in a bonsai pot or container with a drainage system or hole to prevent excessive water from resting on the roots. Excessive water causes the azalea’s foliage and blooms to brown and can promote disease. You should grow these trees in a pot because you have greater control over its growing environment and you can bring it inside when it blooms to add color in your home. Just place it back outside when it finishes blooming.

When the tree has finished flowering for the year remove the yearly growth, this will help its overall structure. If there are any secondary shoots these should be pruned during midsummer. For the best results, please the Azalea in partial shade, protecting it from heavy rain and frost. You can use the same type of potting soil or fertilizer as you would any other bonsai plant in the Rhododendron family that like acidic soil.

More details and shipping information here at the nursery
Unlike other Azaleas that bloom in the spring, the Chinzan can bloom frequently throughout the year with one or more pink blooms. Satsuki Azaleas are known for their prized flowers and small evergreen leaves. The tree you see pictured here is seven years old and stands about eleven inches tall.

Watering will depend on the type of soil mix you are using, the humidity in the air, the temperature. Azaleas like to be around moist soil or at least damp all the time. This doesn’t mean however that you water them everyday. If you are growing your azalea in a pot or container be sure to have a drainage system or hole to prevent excessive water from resting on the roots. Excessive water causes the foliage and blooms to brown and can promote disease. You can explore other outdoor trees for the garden or patio in this section about outdoor bonsai trees. Review other ornamental patio trees here chinese elm bonsai, japanese maple bonsai

If you are shaping your bonsai tree trunk or branches with wire don’t wrap too tight so you do not damage the trunk and bark of your azalea bonsai.

Dwarf Cypress Trees

Outdoor evergreen bonsai dwarf cypress tree, ideal as an ornamental tree

There are several varieties of dwarf cypress trees for you to consider planting. Each of these miniature cypress trees are great to use as miniature or small landscaping trees in the backyard or front yard. They also happen to be the pride of louisana and florida. Read more

small flowering trees

For a patio area or the front entrance to your home, outdoor bonsai trees make ideal small flowering trees for small spaces. The enjoyable part of growing these small trees are that they can be planted in decorative containers.

Most small flowering trees lose their foliage in autumn and require a dormant period during winter.
A few favorite bonsai varieties of small blooming trees and shrubs that you can buy direct from the nursery are evergreens namely, flowering pyracantha and azalea. All are easy to grow and care for. Other varieties which are deciduous are flowering and fruiting. The trees in this group include flowering crab apple, japanese wisteria, korean lilac, flowering quince and mini jasmine tree. Read more

Small Trees For Patio Area

Many home and garden landscape magazines show you all kinds of different trees and shrubs that you can plant along the edges of your patio. But did you know the best small trees for a patio area are japanese bonsai trees.

Your choices in a small ornamental tree for the patio area is between a deciduous or an evergreen tree.  Deciduous trees are best if you enjoy seeing the leaves turn color in the autumn months. If your patio gets a lot of shade then an evergreen may be best for you. 

If you don’t want your patio container tree to be over 2 feet in height then outdoor bonsai trees are the perfect choice, some varieties do flower and produce fruit. These are not dwarf trees but full grown trees that are easily trained in a bonsai style. As with any small patio tree grown on a deck it still must get a bit if direct sun to grow properly. Read more

Maple bonsai tree

Every home should have a japanese maple tree planted in the yard!

Well I agree to that only in principle, because as beautiful as maple trees are when the leaves change color, I don’t like raking leaves. My solution to this problem was to buy a maple bonsai tree and have it growing on my patio. I can pick up the leaves from my bonsai maple tree in about a minute and a half, “perfect”.

The first bonsai tree that I purchase was the Japanese green maple bonsai, it was around 25 years old and 24″x25″x30″ with 6 inch diameter trunk, just like the one offered for sale and pictured below. It is a deciduous bonsai that was grown by bonsai boy. It came in a rectangle pot. It will grow palmate leaves with red spring color. A slow grower with small leaves and a very nice form. Read more