A bonsai is a record of years of decisions. Leafolio keeps the species, the pot, the repotting and wiring history, and a photo timeline of each tree’s development in one place.
A bonsai collection is unlike any other. Each tree is the sum of every repot, every pruning, every wiring season, and every styling decision made over years or decades. Two trees of the same species can be worlds apart because of what was done to them and when. The pot matters too: who made it, and why it suits the tree.
Hold that history in your head and it fades. Write it down in a notebook and it scatters. Leafolio keeps each tree’s development log, its pot details, its sources, and a photo record together, so the work you have put in stays legible to you, and to whoever inherits the tree.
Not rigid app fields, just the things this community tends to write down. In Leafolio they live with the plant, however much detail you want to add.
Repotting, pruning, wiring, and defoliation notes in date order, so a tree’s training reads as one story.
Photograph each tree through the years and watch the styling develop on one page.
Record the pot maker and why a pot suits a tree, kept with the tree it belongs to.
Where each tree or piece of material came from, when, and what you paid for it.
Note where a tree has been exhibited, so its record travels with it.
Track raw and pre-bonsai material in development, and keep a wishlist of trees to find.
Independent organizations and references worth bookmarking. Leafolio has no affiliation with any of them.
A national bonsai education and community organization, with a journal, events, and a network of clubs and practitioners. A helpful starting point for technique, exhibitions, and finding others in the craft. Leafolio is independent and not affiliated with the American Bonsai Society.
www.americanbonsaisociety.org ↗Leafolio is an independent plant collection app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any society, organization, nursery, or cultivar registration authority mentioned on this page. Links are provided as helpful resources for plant collectors.
