In this video I try my hand at making dwarf umbrella tree bonsai from grocery store plants.
I''ve been wanting to make a dwarf Schefflera bonsai for some time now so when I saw Scheffleras on sale at the grocery store I bought one. Actually there were two Schefflera plants in the same pot so I had two to work on.
The scientiffic name of the dwarf umbrella tree ( or dwarf umbrella plant ) is Schefflera arboricola. The smaller leaf size is the best way to distinguish it from the full size umbrella tree which is actually a different species called Schefflera actinophylla ( the species is currently classified as Heptapleurum actinophyllum ).
I''m separating, repotting and hard pruning the dwarf Schefflera plants to start them on their way to becoming Schefflera bonsai trees. Unfortunatelly, things did not go exactly as planned. Nevertheless, I present both my success and failure that resulted from my first interaction with the Schefflera arboricola species.
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