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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Bonsai Maple Forest In Autumn
This Bonsai Tree Is Over 800 Year Old
Wisteria
This 390 Year-old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima
Apple Tree
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
Japanese Red Maple
Apple Tree
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....
Amazing that such a small tree could support that large apple. How did it even manage to grow it when they restrict the use of fertilizer?
Qué bellos. He disfrutado su apreciación. Felicito a los jardineros expertos. Vilma Osorio de Chavarría.
WOW who would have thought an Apple this big could grow on a tree this tiny!
Why do i get so emotional looking at this? This is so amazing that this little guy grew an Apple :3
There is absolutely no way for this to be real. The Apple is much larger than the tree. The branch would not be able to hold the apple. This picture has been doctored.
I got a strong inclination that this is photoshopped. Bonsai fruit trees often produce bonsai fruits.
It's not photoshopped. You can reduce the size of the leaves on a bonsai but not the fruit. If you have seen bonsai with small fruits on them it is because the variety of tree was a dwarf cultivar, or something which always has small fruit like a crabapple. A regular apple tree that has been trained into a bonsai will have the same sized fruit as the same type of tree grown full size.
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Wisteria
The branch almost looks like one of those fountains with the creatures on it spitting out the tree. Beautiful.
Bonsai Hobbit Hole
HOBBIT FANS 101!!!!!! Creative and wonderful, you're a genius! I love it!!
Not An Average Bonsai
Bonsai Chile Tree
Apple Tree
Azalea
Pyracantha
Bonsai Grove In Autumn
Apple Tree
Lilac
150 Year Old Bonsai
Bougainvillea
Wisteria Bonsai
Bonsai Coastal Redwood
Pomegranate
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
Portland's Lan Su Yuan's Penjing
ooooooh, I love the recreations all you guys do! This one is amazingly alike!!
Japanese Maple
Persimmon Bonsai, Purchased In Higashichaya Geisha District, Kanazawa
I Forgot The Check The Name Of The Tree, It's At The Montreal Botanical Garden.
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.
valla çok ilginç acaip ilgimi çekti. Rabbim ne güzellikler yaratmış
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
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!
Bonsai trees are adorable! But wait...are they actually real and living?? How is it possible to grow such a tiny version of trees?
What a delight. I loved looking at these amazing trees. I especially loved the 800 year old one and the flowering ones.
Right, Im sure you can just go ahead and buy the 300 yo tree. Lol.
Load More Replies... 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.
valla çok ilginç acaip ilgimi çekti. Rabbim ne güzellikler yaratmış
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
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!
Bonsai trees are adorable! But wait...are they actually real and living?? How is it possible to grow such a tiny version of trees?
What a delight. I loved looking at these amazing trees. I especially loved the 800 year old one and the flowering ones.
Right, Im sure you can just go ahead and buy the 300 yo tree. Lol.
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