Bonsai Tools
Bonsai creation is an art and to give shape to any piece of art you require medium and proper tools. Just as a painter requires his brushes, canvas, paint, easel and his imagination to concretize his vision, so does a bonsai expert or horticulturalist to create or design the perfect bonsai.
To create a bonsai and maintain its unique miniature form, you require clipping, pruning, and wiring and training the new branches and roots and nipping them to the bud to direct the plant to grow in the shape you desire.
These things cannot be done with your hands or with ordinary gardening tools for bonsai is a special extraordinary art with a specific set of tools that you have to purchase, either from the local hardware store or from gardening stores or from online gardening and bonsai equipment stores, where you will get a huge variety of brands and price range to choose from.
Moreover the store people will hand deliver your bonsai equipment to your home, without your having to put a foot outside your home and the equipments, if purchased from a trusted and reputed store will also last for a good while.
Bonsai tools – scissors
This is the first of the four basic set of tools that will require. Scissors are necessary for pruning and clipping the branches, leaves and roots. The scissors are made out of a variety of metals, they are of various shapes and sizes, the degree of sharpness varies from scissors to scissors and they are of different quality.
The one that you should choose should be very sharp, should be able to reach out to the farthest and most difficult –to –reach parts of the bonsai and it should be made of stainless steel.
Shaping knife
Shaping knives are sharp and concave edged. It is easier to shape the plant with this kind of knife and the wounds inflicted on your hands and fingers don’t take much time to heal. Again the criteria are the same – razor sharpness, good quality, matching size/sizes (if you have more than one bonsai of various sizes)
Tool kit
It is very difficult to dig the soil with your hands in a mini bonsai pot. So you would do better by adding a soil digger to the tool kit. A tiny plougher with which you can turn and lightly plough the soil and mix manure in the pot will also be required. If it is made of steel, it will be hardy.
The other things that should be present in your tool kit are superior quality copper wires that are pliable and ductile as well as wire cutters. You have to learn how to use wire cutters because it is not that easy to bend the wires and wrap the branches around it.
Stainless steel tools are extremely expensive nowadays but they are durable.
In comparison, carbon tools are much more affordable.
