The ancients lamented that "it is difficult to grow boxwood in a thousand years", and just a few words revealed the extremely slow growth rate of boxwood. Boxwood with the main pole diameter of 10CM is over 100 years old.
As we all know, the value of bonsai lies in the shaping of "landscape". After decades or even decades of cultivation and carving, a plant has become a basin of landscape, which is called "annual merit". The growth rate of boxwood itself is extremely slow, and the technological requirements for landscaping are higher. A good boxwood bonsai will not achieve anything without more than ten years' efforts. So there are not many fine products on the market. The value will naturally not be low.
The modeling of boxwood bonsai is difficult. Boxwood is thin and hard, it is easy to break branches without certain modeling skills, and the regeneration of branches takes a long time. The threshold of becoming a stylist of boxwood bonsai is very high, and the blank in the field of modeling also limits the number of higher-level boxwood bonsai to some extent.
Because the value of boxwood has increased year by year, many pile pickers have also seen business opportunities, and a large number of materials have been excavated and sold. Coupled with the shortcomings in maintenance, many materials have died before cultivation. It can be said that good materials are hard to see now.
Trees that grow faster need constant adjustment and pruning, otherwise they will go out of shape. Although boxwood bonsai is difficult to shape and requires high annual work, once it becomes a landscape, it is not easy to deform, which can be described as a "three-dimensional painting" and a "living antique".
Boxwood leaves are oily green, the new leaves are green and attractive, the seasons are evergreen, the leaves are flourishing and the wind and frost are close at hand. It is an excellent bonsai variety. The so-called troubled times gold, prosperous antiques, boxwood bonsai and living antiques. More favored by collectors.
Rare plants have great appreciation potential.
When it comes to collections, people usually think of traditional collections such as calligraphy and painting, antiques, jewelry and jade. As everyone knows, plants can also be "collected". Three years ago, you only needed 500 yuan to buy a boxwood bonsai with good shape, health and pleasing to the eye. Now it costs about 3000 yuan to buy the same bonsai, and the price has increased six times in three years.
In recent years, due to scarcity and the increase of social demand, the prices of some good plant varieties have been rising. A group of businessmen and plant-loving citizens in Wuhan discovered their appreciation potential and started collecting plants. There are tens of thousands of such people.
Not all plants have the value of collection and appreciation, only rare wild plants with good shape, health, long life and ornamental value are worth collecting. In Hubei, rare plants suitable for planting in local climate and soil include Buxus buxus, Taxus chinensis, Chinese mosquito moth, oak tree (tiger thorn), ash tree, golden marble, ginkgo, crape myrtle, azalea, elm, triangle maple, beech tree, Machilus yunnanensis, Acer truncatum, wild camellia, pine tree and cypress.
Plants are not as old as possible.
Good plant bonsai and pile scenery can not grow well in just a few years, but need a long growth cycle and production cycle. Some plants need decades or even hundreds of years to reach the collection level. A good plant, with a century-old pot, becomes a living antique.
Boxwood, for example, has small evergreen leaves and is a good material for making bonsai. However, its growth is slow, and a boxwood with a diameter of 10 cm takes about 150 years.
In classical furniture, boxwood has many special uses, mostly used as decoration and seal of handicrafts. Its wood is tough, fine in texture and smooth in color, which is inferior to other wood and is a good wood for carving. In addition, boxwood flowers are elegant but not gaudy, which can repel mosquitoes and have the effects of sterilization, anti-inflammation and hemostasis.