House Plant and Bonsai

House Plant

Plant are grown indoors either for their foliage or for their flowers, Some plants – such as fern and begonias – provide year-round decoration, other – such as Either lilies, and tulips –are excellent for seasonal display. More than 1000 plant species thrive indoors when grown under the proper conditions. Such condition – the amount of light, heat, humidity, water, and soil – vary for different types of plants. For instance, cacti must have full sun exposure, but African violets thrive best in diffuse light, asparagus fern can tolerate a cool room, but orchids require a warm, humid environment.

Although most plants are acquired already potted, they also can be grown from seeds or from leaf cuttings from another plant. Plants that have already been potted do not need to be disturbed until their roots have out grown the container or the minerals and nutrients have been depleted from the soil.

Bonsai Plant

Bonsai is the ancient Japanese art of dwarfling and shaping plants in small containers to obtain miniaturized versions of nature species. A bonsai tree may be only 30 cm (1 ft) tall but otherwise be a replica of a tree in nature.

The art of the bonsai originated perhaps more than 1,000 years ago in China. Early Japanese aristocrats showed a fondness for bonsai and contributed greatly to its development. Bonsai culture was first popular in the United States among Japanese-Americans, but it is now widely practice.

Bonsai can be classified according to their size as miniature, less than 15 cm (6 in) tall; small 15-30 cm (6-12 in); medium 31-60 cm (12-24 in); and large more than 60 cm. The shape of bonsai can be used to group them into five basic style; formal upright; chokkan; informal upright; moyogi; slanting; shakan; semi cascade; han-kengai; and cascade, kengai.