Bonsai pot is a very important ingredient of the bonsai composition as a whole. Like a platform, the small bonsai pots are where our bonsai shine. For that reason, it is very significant to find a proper bonsai pot for your bonsai.
Bonsai is an art of imitating the nature, and the bonsai pot is the platform of this natural setting. The significance of the bonsai pots must be known. The bonsai pots is one for the three essential units that must be in harmony in a superior bonsai. Finding the wrong pot, even though it contains a fine specimen of miniature tree, will be disgusting to the eye and senses, and it will lack the necessary harmony. The main character is the tree and the bonsai pot should not take away the attention from the tree.
When selecting a pot, one should remember three major things. 1) The correlation between the size of the tree and the size of the pot, and 2) the connection between the color of the tree and the color of the pot, and 3) the connection between the shape of the bonsai tree and the shape of the pot. You will not be able to form a bonsai with harmony if you don’t thoroughly bear in mind these three parts when selecting your container.
In addition, all bonsai pots must have drainage holes. The Chinese bonsai pots must be large enough to allow the bonsai trees to grow beautifully. And if you will be growing and showing your bonsai tree outdoors it is best to purchase a pot that is frost proof to avoid damage.
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