Chinese Bonsai Blog

Hi all, long time no post. Sorry about that, the holiday season sort of swept me away. (By the way, I hope that you had an excellent holiday, whatever you celebrate!)

Now I’m back, and I have a bunch of great new content for you!

To start things off, I wanted to share a video that I found. This guy just bought a normal ol’ juniper bush from a gardening/landscaping store and turned it into a very nice-looking juniper bonsai tree! My favorite part is when it’s all potted up and is showing some new growth (lighter green tips). He will have a very nice bonsai after he shapes and prunes it some more.

This would be an excellent way to start or expand your bonsai collection, especially if you want to try a penjing style with multiple trees! Buying individual pre-trained trees and then grouping them together in one pot would get rather expensive, so a better idea would be to buy several “normal” trees at a gardening store and then treat them like this.

Please enjoy!

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