Autumn is now upon us and is a time when most of your bonsai will start to lose their leaves. Some people can be quite disappointed with this season because it means to them that the bonsai will lose a lot of it’s beauty. Although they will lose their leaves, it should not be seen as a bad thing.
Bonsai can look very beautiful if not even more so when they start to drop their leaves. First the leaves will change colour becoming lovely red, yellow, orange or brown colours. Now your work for the full year will become easy to see showing off the shape and beauty of the tree at it’s utmost.
Some people like to pick off old dying leaves but I like to keep them on the bonsai for as long as they want to stay there because they can give the tree a full new look and colour. This should be savoured because it only comes by once a year.
When the leaves drop off completely in the Winter, you will be able to see the branch structure of the tree. This is the time when you can have a little think about what direction you want to take it in when the new season starts in Spring.
I like to look around to see which trees lose their leaves first in Autumn. The first one I’ve spotted to lose leaves is the ‘Rowan’ or ‘Mountain Ash’ whose leaves died a few weeks ago already at the end of August. Second in turn has been the ‘Horse Chestnut’
Have a look around your area to see which ones die back first.
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