Shulman Bonsai Gardens

10/02/2025

Few of our collection trees, thriving at their new home👌🙏🌳

Let us know if you're looking to invest into a special bonsai to add to your collection.
071 302 7323

03/10/2024

27/09/2024

Exciting moment in the garden! 🌸 My coral bonsai tree has bloomed for the very first time ever! After years of care and patience, it’s finally showing off its beautiful flowers. Nature's little miracles. 🌿

24/06/2024

Chinese Maple bonsai tree dropped all of its leaves for winter. Heres a picture before the winter where it was still green in summer. What a transformation!🍁

Fun fact : Dropping leaves helps the tree conserve water during the winter when the ground may be frozen, and water is harder to absorb.🌲

Another one : Nutrient Recycling: Before the leaves fall, the tree reabsorbs valuable nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from the leaves and stores them in its roots and branches. This recycling process supports new growth in the spring.🙏

24/06/2024

23/06/2024

The wonders of nature!

Colorful leaves on the Chinese Maple bonsai as its preparing to lose its leaves for the winter.

Some interesting facts :
Chinese maple leaves change color due to a combination of environmental and biological factors. The primary reasons are:

1. **Temperature Changes**: Cooler temperatures in the fall reduce the chlorophyll production, revealing other pigments in the leaves.

2. **Day Length**: Shorter days signal the tree to prepare for winter, leading to changes in leaf color.

3. **Pigments**: As chlorophyll (green pigment) breaks down, other pigments become visible:
- **Carotenoids**: Provide yellow and orange hues.
- **Anthocyanins**: Produce red and purple colors and are more prominent in certain conditions, such as bright sunlight and cool temperatures.

4. **Genetic Factors**: The specific species and genetic makeup of the Chinese maple contribute to its vibrant fall colors.

These factors together create the stunning visual transformation of the leaves.

08/04/2024

Same tree in these 3 pictures, 3 years apart. Picture 1 was 2021, picture 2 in 2022. Picture 3 now in 2024 and ready to let it go from our collection🙏

08/04/2024

Same tree, 15 months after the repot. How wild the aerial roots have grown of this small fig🙈

08/04/2024

The trees enjoying the Natural nutrients from the rain🌧

08/04/2024

Invest in a bonsai tree today! Some well developed trees ready to leave our garden, for sale at Olive Tree Nursery in Tzaneen . For more variety of trees, contact us to come view some of our starter material or more developed trees for sale in Modjadjiskloof.
071 302 7323 - Steven

Azalea, Maple, Monkey thorn, yatsabutsa elm, cottoneaster, chinese elm, azalea, celtis wit stinkhout, Monkey thorn, Monkey thorn.

29/02/2024

Time to get my trees back into shape again, one of my favourites, Land Rover with some fig trees over rocks somewhere in the bush...

21/01/2023

No way we letting these bees move into our wild Olive bonsai!😄😄🤦🤦 Kyle moving the swarm of bees so Steven can prune his tree😄🙏