Indoor Bonsai Tree Care

Sageretias are tender shrubs native to Asia and warmer areas of North America. Extensively grown in China for use as bonsai, Sageretias are evergreen in milder climates but become deciduous in temperate zones when exposed to the cold of winter. Sageretias will survive temperatures just below freezing but it is highly recommended to keep them in conditions that rarely drop below around 10°C to keep them in continual growth. They are excellent house plants. For most parts of Europe and North America this means growing Sageretias indoors from around September to May.
Sageretias have symmetrically arranged shiny, oval mid-green leaves to 1.5cm long, young growth is reddish in colour before it matures. The bark quickly becomes scaly and is a dark-brown in colour. In Summer tiny flowers appear in the leaf axils of new shoots and produce large clusters of white followed by small blue berries. Sageretias are slow to form thick trunks and have very fine formative growth; thick-trunked specimens tend to be imported from China where they are field grown.

You will receive a potted, imported Sageretias growing in a 4″ pot and well rooted. They are about 8″ tall with a stylized trunk. Similar to the one pictured above. The trunk diameter is 1″ inch.

The Fukien Tea (‘Carmona microphylla’ or botanically ‘Ehretia buxifolia’) is a shrub-like, evergreen tropical plant of Southern Chinese descent. It is ideally an indoor plant.

The Fukien Tea is a very attractive subject for bonsai or houseplant, with shiny, oval, dark-green leaves against a grey-green trunk with white, slightly perfumed flowers which can appear all year round if given the right conditions. Afterwards, small berries are produced changing from green to red. It can be clipped into your desired bonsai shape easily, without need of wiring.

General Care : The Fukien Tea grows well as an indoor bonsai (Depending on your climate it can be left outside and brought inside for the winter when temperatures drop below 15 degrees C (60 degrees F) or left inside all year as long as the plant is in a sunny position with adequate water and humidity).

Branches can be pruned all year. Pinch out new shoots that detract from the overall shape of the bonsai. Trim new shoots back to two to three leaves regularly in the growing season, and every month in winter.

Feed fortnightly from spring to autumn and monthly in winter with a low nitrogen feed. Water regularly.

IMPORTED BONSAI TREE
COMES IN GLAZED BONSAI POT
VERY EASY TO CARE FOR
DETAILED GROWING INFO INCLUDED
INDOOR FLOWERING TREE