What is Bonsai?
 The Japanese word Bonsai, which has its orgins in Chinese word pen-tsai, literally translated mean tree-in-a-pot.
However, bonsai is more than just growing a tree-in-a-pot, it is an art form that bring together horticultural, nature, aesthetics and Zen into an harmonious and well balance tree or landscape that fires our senses and imagination.
A tree planted in a small pot is not a bonsai until it has been pruned, shaped, and trained into the desired shape. Bonsai are kept small by managing the plants growing condition, pruning unwanted growth, shaping to represent a more natural and balanced tree as found in nature. If a bonsai has and exaggerated appearance only to representing trees that are struggling to survive in hospitable areas like mountain sides or on rocky outcrops.
Bonsai artist understand and bring out the best of their tree into a living and every changing art that tantalises our senses from season to season and from year to year. A bonsai matures in beauty and tranquillity with age and with every bit of love and care it receives, and are often prized as family heirloom and passed on from generation to generation.
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This Exposed Root (Negari) Style Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) has a beautifully Shaped 'S' trunk, with low-swept branches. The tree is believed to be over 20 years old. It measures 45cm high by 20cm wide. Can be grown indoors or outdoors
This Ellwood Falsecypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Ellwoodii') in trained in a formal upright style. Even as a young bonsai it displays imposing character. It is about 5 years old and has reddish brown bark and dense Blue Green foliage.
This Silver Birch (Betula pendula) is being trained in Formal Upright Style. (SOLD)
