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Bonsai trees are awesome. Just ask Mr Miyagi. They look beautiful, they fit in your house, they encourage patience and dedication, they relieve stress, and they help to purify the air. What's not to like?
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 and wiring branches and restricting the use of fertilizer. It's a delicate and time-consuming process, but as you can from this list compiled by Bored Panda, those who persevere are rewarded with something amazing.
Do you have a Bonsai tree? Then add your pictures to the list below and don't forget to vote for your favorite! It's what Mr. Miyagi would have wanted.
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#1
Bonsai Maple Forest In Autumn
JudiSlippoy 9 years ago
The most beautiful bonsai trees I've ever seen. Takes years and much dedication. Congrats to all!
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#2
This Bonsai Tree Is Over 800 Year Old
Tammy Chapman 9 years ago
The fact that this one is over 800 years old is amazing. I hope they can continue keeping it alive. It's awesome.
Claudio Estrada Astudillo 8 years ago
This belongs to the Master Kimura. This is a masterpiece awarded by Japans premier minister. Kimura, The magician.
Jamison Frances 9 years ago
Can you even imagine the dedication it took to have maintained and lovingly tended this tree for so many years?
#3
Wisteria
Flora Lape 9 years ago
this is my favorite number one is my second favorite --where can i get these
#4
This 390 Year-old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima
Helen Frances 9 years ago
Amazing. I wonder if it has ever been tested to check on radiation damage?
Cheryl Williams 9 years ago
Now, that's old! do they have to keep taking it out and trim the roots?
Jack Dankof 9 years ago
To know that beauty can come from so much death and devastation, gives me hope in life.
Inger Lund 6 years ago
fantastic!overlevde Hiroshima..Kan you give me som prises of different types of .Bonzai please?
#5
Apple Tree
CynthiaRosser-Shay 9 years ago
I Grow Wisteria Trees! I LOVE Bonsai Tress! I Am BLESSED To Have Found This! You Made My Day! Well,My Life! Sincerely, With Love! Cynthia Rosser-Shay
Meagan Martin 8 years ago
Pretty, but doesn't look like apple blossoms... Looks like some sort of cherry or serviceberry.
#6
Bonsai Forest
Claudio Estrada Astudillo 8 years ago
This is Goshin. By John Naka. Probably the most important and most well known bonsai in the world. This IS the masterpiece.
#7
Azalea
Kopitiam English 9 years ago
I just love it....it looks awesome....I wish oh wish it was in my garden.
#8
Japanese Red Maple
Alan Peacock 5 years ago
The above tree is owned by Ken & Ann Norman and was photographed at Leonardslee Gardens near Horsham West Sussex and is potted in a Gordon Duffet pot.
#9
Apple Tree
KatinkaMin 9 years ago
Somehow I feel oddly sorry for the little apple tree. Meant to be so much bigger but now dwarfed and fighting to grow at least one fruit....
#10
Wisteria
AlbinoSquirrel 9 years ago
The branch almost looks like one of those fountains with the creatures on it spitting out the tree. Beautiful.
Sandra Evans 8 years ago
I wish we knew how old these trees were. I'm sure it would be surprising.
#11
Bonsai Hobbit Hole
AlbinoSquirrel 9 years ago
HOBBIT FANS 101!!!!!! Creative and wonderful, you're a genius! I love it!!
Cheryl Williams 9 years ago
I have a friend that took a full size oak tree and did this to it. Look really cool. More so after the storm took off the top and only the stump was left.
Jeremy Cowan 4 years ago
Is the moss for real, and if so was it just very carefully put into place for the photo and then removed ? It looks absolutely beautiful and amazing to say the least.
#12
Not An Average Bonsai
VonRoga 9 years ago
Natural bonsai. I've past this guy several times on the way to/from Port Renfrew. I've often wondered how long the log it's living on will support it before it rots away and if someone will save it before then.
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AlbinoSquirrel 9 years ago
Most beautiful picture I've seen in a while. Messaged to myself and set as my wallpaper
#13
Bonsai Chile Tree
AnaT. 9 years ago
looks like a hybrid of 2 chile plants and by the way those species of chiles grow up like that
chachkimooch 9 years ago
lol! Before I scrolled all the way down, I thought these were Christmas lights!
#14
Sakura
#15
Apple Tree
#16
Magnolia
#17
Azalea
DianeDesAutels 9 years ago
Azaleas can be very vivid colors, but I think what you're remarking on is the effects of the FLASH. Have you ever tried to take a photo of one yourself? I have, and it's very difficult to capture the actual color. There may have been NO Photoshop involved.
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#18
Pyracantha
#19
Japanese Maple
Darlen Monique 6 years ago
I've been looking for a place to buy bonsai tools for my hobby for a long time. No doubt buying them online is much cheaper and easier if you don't know where to buy tools for bonsai near home. now thanks to the offers of black friday of amazon, I have got a set at a discounted price of grtan quality They are Chinese tools with forged steel as in industrial tools. I have also obtained a large amount of graft paste, wire and some fertilizer for plants. I'm very happy, really. I recommend it.
#21
Bonsai Grove In Autumn
#22
Apple Tree
#23
Lilac
#24
150 Year Old Bonsai
#25
Bougainvillea
#26
Wisteria Bonsai
#27
Bonsai Coastal Redwood
#31
Pomegranate
NaomiPrior 9 years ago
I have one that isn't a dwarf,I've had it since it was a baby and trim and manage it. I get loads of beautiful flowers and pomegranates year
SandiElliott 9 years ago
I'm trying to learn...if I buy a pomegranate tree, cut it and root back and plant in a 1 inch deep dish and keep it trimmed, over years it will bloom? These are beyond beautiful.
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RRidout 9 years ago
Probaly. There is a dwarf variety of pomegranate that is pretty common for bonsai.
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Portland's Lan Su Yuan's Penjing
Final score:
61points
AlbinoSquirrel 9 years ago
ooooooh, I love the recreations all you guys do! This one is amazingly alike!!
#34
Japanese Maple
StevenWilliamson 9 years ago
Sigh.....that tree gets better care than you do. It's not wilting. Why would they feature a wilted tree in this post? Gee.
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❤️
Final score:
34points
#36
Persimmon Bonsai, Purchased In Higashichaya Geisha District, Kanazawa
Final score:
24points
#37
My Ginger Root !
Final score:
17points
#38
I Forgot The Check The Name Of The Tree, It's At The Montreal Botanical Garden.
Final score:
9points
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Connie Knox 8 years ago
Very nice. Something I could play with at home, as long as I don't kill it in the process. Have a bit of a black thumb.
Drsaldray Saldr 8 years ago
valla çok ilginç acaip ilgimi çekti. Rabbim ne güzellikler yaratmış
Falguni Desai 9 years ago
The bonsai tree in the attractive pot could have grown eighty feet tall on the side of a mountain till split by lightning. But a gardener carefully pruned it. It is nine inches high. Every day as he whittles back the branches the gardener croons, It is your nature to be small and cozy, domestic and weak; how lucky, little tree, to have a pot to grow in. With living creatures one must begin very early to dwarf their growth: the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers, the hands you love to touch. Marge Piercy
Joan Helbling 9 years ago
So much beauty! So much said about cultures who produce so much beauty! We should all give thanks for the sharing of these magnificent plants...and for the magnificent people who produce such art, enrich our environment, and share their expertise with the world...Patience, discipline and love, sweet love, is what we need to create a more perfect world. Positivity and caring RULE!
Connie Knox 8 years ago
Very nice. Something I could play with at home, as long as I don't kill it in the process. Have a bit of a black thumb.
Drsaldray Saldr 8 years ago
valla çok ilginç acaip ilgimi çekti. Rabbim ne güzellikler yaratmış
Falguni Desai 9 years ago
The bonsai tree in the attractive pot could have grown eighty feet tall on the side of a mountain till split by lightning. But a gardener carefully pruned it. It is nine inches high. Every day as he whittles back the branches the gardener croons, It is your nature to be small and cozy, domestic and weak; how lucky, little tree, to have a pot to grow in. With living creatures one must begin very early to dwarf their growth: the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers, the hands you love to touch. Marge Piercy
Joan Helbling 9 years ago
So much beauty! So much said about cultures who produce so much beauty! We should all give thanks for the sharing of these magnificent plants...and for the magnificent people who produce such art, enrich our environment, and share their expertise with the world...Patience, discipline and love, sweet love, is what we need to create a more perfect world. Positivity and caring RULE!
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