Beautiful Bonsai Trees 盆栽

Beautiful Bonsai Trees 盆栽

Below are fifteen amazingly beautiful bonzai plants which have received great patience and care!  

Bonsai trees are awesome.  They fit into any house, they encourage patience and dedication, they relieve stress, and they help to purify the air.

People have been caring for Bonsai trees for over a thousand years. The ancient horticultural practice originated in China, where it was known as "penzai", and was later redeveloped under the influence of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

The plants are kept small due to growth-restricting techniques such as pinching buds, pruning, wiring branches and restricting the use of fertilizer.   It's a delicate and time-consuming process.  As you can see, it’s well worth the effort and time.

#1 Bonsai Maple Forest In Autumn

 #2 This Bonsai Tree Is Over 800 Year Old

#3 Wisteria -  OMG!

#4 This 390 Year-old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima

#5 Apple Tree

#6 Bonsai Forest

#7 Azalea -  WOW!

#8 Japanese Red Maple

#9 Apple Tree

#10 Wisteria

#11 Bonsai Hobbit Hole

#12 Not An Average Bonsai

#13 Bonsai Chile Tree

#14 Sakura



#15 Apple Tree

These 22 beautiful bonsai trees are a great example of how diverse this artform can be.

Cherry Blossom in full bloom

A bonsai is created beginning with a specimen of source material. This may be a cutting, seedling, or small tree of a species suitable for bonsai development. Bonsai can be created from nearly any perennial woody-stemmed tree or shrub species.

A Bald Cypress

Small trees grown in containers, like bonsai, require specialized care. Unlike houseplants and other subjects of container gardening, tree species in the wild, in general, grow roots up to several meters long and root structures encompassing several thousand liters of soil. In contrast, a typical bonsai container is under 25 centimeters in its largest dimension and 2 to 10 liters in volume.

A 30 year old Azalea

Wisteria Bonsais

One of the oldest bonsai trees in history, this is a Japanese White Pine,and its conjectured that its birthday was in 1625, almost 400 years ago.

Branch and leaf (or needle) growth in trees is also of a larger scale in nature. Wild trees typically grow 5 meters or taller when mature, whereas the largest bonsai rarely exceed 1 meter and most specimens are significantly smaller. These size differences affect maturation, transpiration, nutrition, pest resistance, and many other aspects of tree biology. Maintaining the long-term health of a tree in a container requires some specialized care techniques.

Adenium

Bonsai during winter

Bonsai during fall

40 year old Coast Redwood

Over 40 year old Chinese Banyan

A 30 year old Hibiscus

A tpe of bonsai designed to mimic a forest.

The source specimen is shaped to be relatively small and to meet the aesthetic standards of bonsai. When the candidate bonsai nears its planned final size it is planted in a display pot, usually one designed for bonsai display in one of a few accepted shapes and proportions. From that point forward, its growth is restricted by the enviornment supplied by the pot.

Another beautiful Azalea

A lilac that has both  looks and a lovely scent

Cascade style of bonsai

Bonsai has now definitively reached a world-wide audience. There are over twelve hundred books on bonsai and the related arts in at least twenty-six languages available in over ninety countries and territories. So if you fancy trying to grow some of these beautiful examples of the bonsai art, and create something that lasts a lifetime, there are many onling blogs and videos to walk you through the process.

Root over rock style

A Japanese Maple that is about 100 years old (across seasons)

60 year old Crabapple Tree

The practice of bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing, but dwarfing generally refers to research, discovery, or creation of plant cultivars that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species. Bonsai does not require genetically dwarfed trees, but rather depends on growing small trees from regular stock and seeds. Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation, and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-size trees.

25 year old Cherry Tree

Trident maple with exposed roots

Over 50 year old Atlas Cedar

Another Azalea and my personal favorite...

1. An 800 year-old bonsai tree at Shunkaen 

This tree is well known for how ancient it is. Reported to be over 800 years old, this is one of the world's most expensive bonsai trees. Its owner, master Kobayashi, is one of the most celebrated Bonsai artists in the world, and has won prize after prize for his lovely works. You can visit his nursery, Shunkaen, in Tokyo, as it is open to visitors. 

2. A very special Juniper Strain 

This Juniper strain is also over 3 decades old, and its outer branch reaches a whopping 2 meters in length, all self-supported! This tree took decades to cultivate in a way that supports this kind of weight distribution. 

3. Small bonsai; a Shohin tree  

This picture was taken in spring - in summer this tree blooms with flowers, and in winter, it produces little red berries. It's only four inches tall and is planted on a miniature rock. It's about 20 years old but took a decade to cultivate. 

Bonus: An introduction to bonsai styles

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4. Pinus Silvestris 

What's most incredible about this bonsai is how realistic it is, something every bonsai master wishes to create. The foliage pads are very dense, as if there were clouds above! Even diminutive, it has the look of a much larger and complex tree. 

5. Chinese-style trees; a Penjing landscape Penjing landscape 

One can also use bonsai trees to create magnificent landscapes. This Chinese-style landscape is kept at the Man Lung collection in Hong Kong. The trees are Chinese Bird Plums (Sageretia Theezans) and create a very realistic, beautiful scene. Presentation is everything, so these trees, rocks and miniature figurines were placed on a marble pot sitting on an antique wooden table. 

6. Flowering Azalea bonsai 

The beautiful Azalea bonsai tree is only 5 inches (14 cm) tall. It blooms in later spring to early summer only for a short time, but it is so beautiful when it does - with its flowers reaching up to 7 inches (17 cm) in diameter.

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7. The world's tiniest apple tree that produces real apples 

This tiny tree is over 30 years old, and as small as it is (under seven inches), it can produce one or even two full-sized apples. We're not sure of the taste, as the fruit is too rare and special to be eaten

8. A Famous Japanese maple bonsai (Acer palmatum)

This is one of the most famous bonsai trees, belonging to the collection of a European artist by the name of Walter Pall. The tree is so realistic-looking, you could swear it was a maple until you see the size of it. Relative to other bonsai trees, however, it's quite large, almost a meter in height (which is the max allowed to be called a bonsai tree). It's over 100 years old. 

9. Semi-cascade juniper bonsai tree 

Designed and developed by Harry Hirao, this very old, semi-cascade style bonsai was collected in the white mountains of California. The deadwood on the trunk is very obvious and there's only one stripe where the tree connects its leaves to its roots. This kind of style is called literati and it is considered a lyrical style of growing bonsai, displaying tension in the trunk and release in the cascading branches, as a form of yin and yang, completing each other.

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10. Brazilian rain tree 

This tree is grown from a small cutting and took 12 years to cultivate. It is native to Central and South America, and seen as one of the most beautiful trees of the tropical world, which makes it a great candidate for making a bonsai.

11. Goshin "Protector of the spirits"

Goshin (in English, "protector of the spirits") is a special bonsai tree created by John Y. Naka. He used the forest planting of 11 different trees, the earliest of which he began cultivating into bonsai form in 1948. In 1984, Naka donated this priceless tree to the United States National Bonsai Foundation, to be displayed and admired.  

12. A Miniature Bougainvillea in Full Bloom 

Native to South America, the Bougainvillea Bonsai is a tree grown accustomed to warmer climates, and is able to grow wherever there is sunlight. It has a wonderful array of colorful flowers, changing between the variety of species, which entices Bonsai artists all the more. It blooms in the winter and in early spring, bursting into colors of yellow, orange, red, pink and purple.