Orlando Bonsai » Portulacara https://www.orlandobonsai.com The purpose of this site is to share and enjoy the art, history and horticulture of bonsai and to provide current bonsai news and information. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Jaded https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1693 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1693#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:00:18 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1693 I am not a fan of GROWING the Portulacara, however I greatly appreciate them when they are done well as Bonsai.  I don’t think there is anyone better than Jim Smith at this and his trees are legendary.  That is one tree that looks fake when done as a bonsai just because they are so perfect.  I have tried a number of times to grow them but on my watering system everything gets watered the same.  Dwarf jade don’t like a lot of water and the last tree I had developed root rot. 

So I sent my Dwarf Jade to Roger’s Nursery for a ”vacation” and while it was there Mike took the liberty to cut my tree into two halves (top and bottom).  Although the bottom was rather rotted out, the top was a great tree.  I’ve been growing it for a while now and keeping it off the direct water spray and it seems happy.  I’m trying to find some “before” pictures, but here is a current view.

dwarf jade bonsai


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