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Hi all,

Just an inquest into whether people use artificial lighting to aid their bonsai growth and health. I have a chinese elm bonsai but the lighting in my house is fairly dark, I struggle to get 5/6 hours of daylight anywhere really. I've seen some bonsai are kept under lamps and wondered if this was something I could do through the winter before I place it outside in the spring. Any information would be well received.

Thanks,
Joe

Chinese Elm must be outside, you will be lucky to get it through the winter alive

Kept outside all through winter? Even in the frost/snow? I live in the UK and most of what I’ve read is that they are brought inside in the winter and put outside in the spring?

They will shed there leaves in winter outside.

Here is a bonsai nursery in the UK, with some good video's.

Start this video at 9min 29sec

Rogers wrote: Kept outside all through winter? Even in the frost/snow? I live in the UK and most of what I’ve read is that they are brought inside in the winter and put outside in the spring?

I don’t think anywhere in the UK winter climate is more harmful to a helm than your living room’s.

It will have no problem at all staying outside. It will likely suffer or even die if you keep it indoor...

By and large a tree or any plant wants the environment where it has evolved. For millions of years plants have not migrated indoors in the fall, and for millions of years they have gone dormant on signal from the weather. It will do best if you let the tree have the environment it has evolved in.