Bonsai Supplies

Japanese Maple 20 Seeds/Seed – ACER – BONSAI

• A great landscape tree for zones 5-9
• Grows up to twenty five feet in height but is often pruned shorter
• Also makes an excellent bonsai specimen.
• 20 Seeds

MAPLE TREES: Maple trees are large, deciduous trees that grow throughout the world. In the United States, they are more common in the northern states. Many people know maple trees for their spectacular fall color. Japanese Maple: A great landscape tree for zones 5-9. Grows up to twenty five feet in height but is often pruned shorter. Also makes an excellent bonsai specimen.

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Japanese White Pine 15 Seeds/Seed – Bonsai

Beautiful pine up to 60-90 feet in the wild, but with a slow growth. Young trunk and branches smooth and greyish. Bark becoming darker and scaly after. Quite hardy in zones 4-9. The Japanese White pine has the most “artistic” growth habit of any five-needle pine. It is a top choice bonsai specimen and an extremely graceful landscape tree. Rather slow growing, green to blue-green in color and variable in height. Native to Japan. This wonderful pine also makes a fantastic bonsai tree!

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Bonsai Boy’s Ginseng Ficus Bonsai Tree – Medium
(Ficus Retusa)

• 10 years old specimen, 12″ tall
• Indoor bonsai tree grown and trained by Bonsai Boy.

Also known as Banyan Fig and Taiwan Ficus. The Retusa has small dark green leaves which alternate up the stem and which are more oval than the Benjamina. Grey to reddish bark dotted with small horizontal flecks, similar to tiger-like markings. All have heavy trunks with exposed aerial roots. Among the most tolerant, versatile and trouble-free bonsai trees for indoor use.

Price: $ 49.95

Bonsai Boy’s Ficus Bonsai Tree – Banyan Style
(ficus benjamina )

• 44 years old, 24″x19″x27″
• Recommended indoor bonsai tree, grown and trained by Bonsai Boy

The Ficus Benjamina is an indoor tropical bonsai tree that is easy to care for. Has evergreen leaves with a pointed tip that can be reduced in size by trimming. Trimming will also keep the tree tight and compact as will direct sun. Field grown specimen, trained in the multi-trunk Banyan Style.

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Oshio Beni Japanese Maple 7 Seeds – Acer – Bonsai

• Acer palmatum ‘Oshio Beni’
• A great landscape tree
• Hardy Zones 5-9
• Grows up to twenty five feet in height but is often pruned shorter
• Also makes an excellent bonsai specimen.

MAPLE TREES: Maple trees are large, deciduous trees that grow throughout the world. In the United States, they are more common in the northern states. Many people know maple trees for their spectacular fall color. Oshio Beni Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Oshio Beni’. A great landscape tree for zones 5-9. Grows up to twenty five feet in height but is often pruned shorter. Also makes an excellent bonsai specimen.

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Bonsai Boy’s Juniper Bonsai Tree

• 6 years old specimen, 6″ – 7″ tall
• Recommended bonsai tree
• Great bonsai tree for the beginner
• Tolerates many adverse conditions, hardy tree

Juniper Procumbens “nana”. This dwarf Juniper bonsai tree from Japan is the most popular evergreen in the U.S. When we think of a traditional bonsai tree and what it should look like, we think of a “Juniper Procumbens Nana.” It is very hardy, long-lived, and tolerates many adverse conditions. This is an excellent tree for the beginner. This tree is grown with care at Bonsai Boy of New York Nurseries. Watch out for imitations.

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Chinese Elm Bonsai Tree – Medium by Bonsai Boy

• 10 years old specimen, 10″ – 12″ tall
• Recommended indoor bonsai tree, grown and trained by Bonsai Boy
• Twisted trunk and exposed roots
• Hardy tree with a great shape

Ulmus Parvifolia. Has small evergreen leaves. Hardy bonsai tree with excellent branching characteristics. Twisted trunk and exposed roots give the appearance of great age.

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Price: $ 19.99

Bonsai trees and plants are basically trees and plants that are pruned and trimmed to keep their size minimal. The trees and plants relish the practise because they get a lot of care and attention and have a lifespan similar, even greater in some cases, than their wild counterparts. Indoor Bonsai can be bought from virtually anywhere in the world and the increase in popularity has seen a large increase in the number of specialist shops dedicated to the growing and caring of Bonsai.

Outdoor Bonsai can be grown in a small area of your garden, and some of the most healthy Bonsai in the world are outdoor Bonsai. However, it is important that you should try to buy outdoor Bonsai from a shop close to home, thus ensuring that your specimen can cope with the conditions you are going to force it to endure. If you live in a baking hot state in America and are considering buying over the Internet, you shouldnt be buying a Bonsai from a cold climatic country, as there is a good chance it will not thrive in your area.

Do outdoor Bonsai need less care than indoor Bonsai?

Just because you are growing your Bonsai in a small area of your garden doesnt mean you should or indeed can forget about them and just expect them to maintain their miniature height or grow at all. A Bonsai that isnt trimmed and cut will cease to be a Bonsai and will simply become a tree, presuming there is room for the roots to grow; its amazing exactly where your roots will dig to, they will often find a way through or around concrete, rocks and even other plants and trees so be very careful where you situate it.

If you are growing your outdoor Bonsai in a pot, which is the most common and sensible way to do it, then you should never bring it indoors. No matter how ill it looks it will undoubtedly not enjoy the sudden change in conditions and even the most healthy and hardy of Bonsai can only withstand a day, possibly two at the very most, indoors as a centre piece. It is very important to remember this, do not bring an outdoor Bonsai indoors for longer than one day every season. Bringing your Bonsai in during the winter and putting it next to the blazing hot heater is undoubtedly going to scorch the leaves and the roots, and your plant will probably die from dehydration. The reverse is also true, bringing a Bonsai in from the heat and leaving it next to the Air Conditioning unit is the equivalent of a shock frost in summer and will also kill your Bonsai.

There are many types of Bonsai trees available and the first decision for anyone interested in growing Bonsai trees is what type of Bonsai tree to purchase. This is an important decision because there are various other things that a Bonsai cultivator must purchase and all of them depend on the type of Bonsai tree. The design of the pot, type of tools, etc. are all such factors. There is also the matter of really gathering knowledge about the tree that is selected. What are the trees optimal growing conditions, how often does it need watering, how often does it need pot replacement? All these questions have different answers based on the type of Bonsai trees. Study the types of trees and also what is involved in growing them properly. Match these against your own space and time availability.

Some of the common tools that you will need to take care of a Bonsai tree include wires of different sizes, wire cutters, a small as well as large pair of scissors, a small pair of garden shears (these should be sharp), and a larger pair of pruners to cut thick branches (if the Bonsai tree has thick branches).

There are already some places where a pre-trained, juvenile Bonsai trees can be purchased. This sounds like a good option but care should be taken when picking such a ready trained Bonsai tree. You need to knowledge to make a competent assessment that the Bonsai juvenile you purchase today will indeed turn out to be a good specimen when it is fully grown. There are also stock trained Bonsai trees available at plant nurseries. These Bonsai are already fully grown and do not need any training but simply everyday care. Visiting these nurseries is a good idea anyway because you can see the different types of Bonsai trees when they are fully grown.

Bonsai pots can be purchased from any plant shop but before making the purchase make certain of small points like: the pot had adequate drainage and little feet on it so water can drain away. The gap on elevated pots also allows for better airflow. The soil you use should be half organic and half grit as this also helps maintain a good level of drainage and at the same time provides the plant good anchorage in a shallow depth.

Use wire screens to prevent the soil from running out of the drainage holes at the bottom of the pot along with the drainage. First make a layer of grit at the bottom of the pot before putting in the Bonsai soil. Once you have planted the Bonsai tree it is time to give it the shape that you want. A good way is to use wires and coil them in spirals around the branches and then simply bend the whole thing in the direction you want it to grow. Be careful as not to break any branches that you shape. The size of juvenile Bonsai trees especially needs gentle handling.

Japanese Maples are some of the prettiest trees for the sophisticated landscape. Botanically known as Acer Palmatum, the Japanese Maple is one of the smallest Maples in this vast category of trees. Unlike its majestic cousins the Sugar Maple, Scarlet Maple and Norway Maple all of which can skim the sky with impressive height ranging from 50-100 feet tall, some of the tallest cultivars of the Japanese Maple are minuscule by comparison, barely reaching 20 feet. Because of this lack of height and its tendency to branch outward and grow virtually parallel to the ground the Japanese Maple is often referred to as a shrub, though it is technically a small multi-stemmed tree.

The most ornamental of these lovely plants is arguably the “Atropurpureum” Crimson Queen, a Red Japanese Maple. This one is often used as a focal point in Japanese gardens and especially as Bonsai as they are very slow growing and do quite well in containers. This is good to know if you live outside of its preferred comfort zones 5-8. “Crimson Queen” is small enough to be called a shrub but it can easily be pruned to a single stem and to take on any shape you prefer. It can top out around 15 feet but the spread exceeds this to 20 feet wide.

The Red Japanese Maple is mostly pruned to resemble a dome with its branches almost touching the ground. This makes them ideal for planting in groups or as a informal hedge although most gardeners believe they deserve special treatment and should be placed solo as a specimen preferably in the front yard where it can be seen, admired and the envy of all your neighbors. Yes, it is that good.

Being relatively small, the “Crimson Queen” Red Japanese Maple won’t block any view in the front yard and it is quite comfortable being an under-story tree in woodland settings. The leaves are a rich crimson and is one of the best Red Japanese Maples for retaining their color through the summer heat. This is especially true when given a bit of shade. The finely cut and multi-lobed leaves turn scarlet for a great autumn show before dropping in time for winter. It makes a very impressive picture in the garden with the delicate leaves giving it an almost ethereal, hazy glow from afar. But even in winter when it is leafless the bark, a nice reddish color, and it’s graceful arching branches make a nice contrast against the usual starkness of that coldest and bleakest of seasons.

The care for this Maple is consistent with other Japanese Maples. They like a semi-shady spot but the Crimson Queen is fairly tolerant of full sun where water is plentiful. The soil should be rich and well-drained but as with all Maples they require sufficient water when in leaf.

With proper pruning the Japanese Maple can remain a small mound barely ten feet tall but can also be allowed to take whatever shape it chooses. Either way “Crimson Queen” is a stunning addition to any landscape. Consider planting one and you too will be impressed.