Mary’s Landscape Art Info

Today, my friend and I visited a Bonsai nursery in North Fort Myers in search of a choice tree for our landscape paintings. Bonsai trees are amazing to me – those little shrubs about 12″ – 36″ in height that normally would be much larger!

To create a Bonsai tree, one uses techniques like pruning, root reduction and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-sized trees. Frequently, the trunks of Bonsai trees are much larger in comparison to their height than normal tree trunks are to their height. Also, sometimes the limbs have been wired to grow in a particular shape to make an interesting display. To me, they are always charming.