Tips! How to Keep Your Bonsai Safe During Typhoon

Typhoons are the most common unwelcomed guests for Filipinos. Every year we are visited, almost 30 times, by different storms that come in different strengths and sizes. And they have real funny like kasambahay names! Lol! If your garden is not ready to face them, savage forces of nature may just tear it apart. To many of our bonsai enthusiasts, this is bad news. It is a common scene in the Philippines to always prepare ahead of time whenever an incoming typhoon is announced by PAGASA. So here are some tips to keep your bonsai safe during a typhoon or flood.

Following these Tips

1. Defoliate. Just like the normal sized trees, bonsai has the ability to withstand the gust of wind with its vigorous foliage. If the wind is too strong the tree may not be able to withstand it and you don’t want know what’s going to happen next. So to solve that, it is better not to go against the strong wind. If possible, just defoliate and let the wind pass through those little branches of your bonsai tree
2. Clean. Check your garden for objects that may fall down to your bonsai trees during a typhoon. Cable wires, branches of trees, unsecured roofing, etc. Clean your garden from these possible hazards.
3. Secure. Using wire, you may secure your bonsai tree by tying it to its stand. This is good for those that are on monkey pole stands. This way the bonsai pot is fixed in its position.
4. Organize. For areas that get flooded during a typhoon, arranging bonsai trees in elevated shelves is a perfect idea. Not only that they will look organized, they will also be safe from the flood water that stay long for days or even weeks. For small bonsai, it is bettee to transfer them temporarily in a room or any protected space. It is easier to move them because they are lighter to carry than the biggies.

So there! These tips may or may not apply to everyone, but in any case, they will help keep your bonsai safe so that we can avoid bonsai problems during storms.

What preparations do you do to keep your plants safe during typhoons?