New Bonsai Plants

It's been awhile since I've done a post about my bonsai plants. I'm afraid they suffered horribly in the Texas drought last summer and a lost a couple of plants. But it's a new year and we've had plenty of rain so far. I bought 2 new plants to replace the ones I lost.

There is a very nice nursery near us called Maas Nursery. They've always had a few bonsai but they recently enlarged their offerings, which you can see behind me on the right. While we were there we bought some other stuff.

I've been wanting a Japanese Maple bonsai for a long time but never saw anything I could afford. This is a nice little one at a good price.  I added the gray stones. I like to put stones on top of the soil to keep the soil from eroding while watering.

This is called a Serrisa. It gets little white flowers but it has already bloomed. It needs some trimming.

The bench is looking a little lonely (note the empty pots on the right). The Japanese Maple is on a windowsill in the shade. The Texas sun will damage it. Next weekend I'm going to build a sun shade for the bench, something I should have done years ago.