Bonsai is a gardening technique whereby nature's designs in trees is being curve and contained by man with the use of containers and this art of tending miniature tree was traced to have been practiced in China more than two thousand years ago and is continuously turning many people around the globe to try it as their hobby and source of livelihood for others. If you are not quite familiar with this art of growing big but dwarfed trees inside your homes or in your gardens, try these guidelines to keep your bonsai alive and bear fruits under your caring hands.

1.If your bonsai was just recently delivered to you as a present or you have just purchased it, water it at once and keep observing and expect that its leaves would turn yellow after a couple of weeks after arrival. This is natural as your bonsai is adjusting to conditions prevailing in your place, just flick the leaves off and be careful not to pull them.

2. See to it that your bonsai is watered every other day during summer the whole year round and remember that the procedure in watering bonsai is by dipping it in water, keep it in moist condition always and do not allow it to dry up.

3. Choose the proper location of your bonsai inside your home as it needs sufficient sunlight but frowns on putting it directly on midday sun, observe carefully your bonsai when it starts to shed off some leaves and that signals that you must change its location and look for another best spot.

4. Fertilizers. Bonsai loves lots of food and it must be fed once every two weeks during summer and one a month during winter, feed it with phostrogen tomato feed or bonsai food especially formulated for these type of trees and be sure to apply the food only after you have immersed in water your bonsai. You must be sure to follow the feeding instructions so that you will not overfeed your bonsai that would result to well expose leaves to the sun.

5. In pruning your bonsai, follow the original shape and don't deviate, just cut off the extended shoots to preserve the original look and do it regularly during the year especially during summer when the tree grows faster.

6. Your bonsai must be repotted every two or three years if possible during springtime, just trim away some portion of the roots and change the old soil.

7. When you failed to water your bonsai regularly, the leaves would turn brown and crinkly, just let the leaves fall at their own time and go back and follow strictly the instructions on how to water it by immersion and keep it moist all the time, while yellow leaves would tell you that you are almost drowning your plant as you have overwatered it, stick to the watering guide to avoid these unwanted signals.

The above guidelines are easy to implement but most of the times are neglected resulting in the untimely death of the small tree in your house that reminds you of bigger natural things turning small with the use of your hands, a feat only a true gardener could do.