Other factors can contribute to the cost. The bonsai pots and the tools used are often handmade and can cost thousands of dollars themselves. Certain types of tree are also harder to grow or ...
Japanese maples are ideal for bonsai beginners, happily settling into small pots and responding well to pruning and shaping, quickly developing a canopy full of attractive palm-shaped leaves. What's ...
Sydney-based Japanese bonsai master Megumi Bennett currently grows more than 300 bonsai pots, which she lovingly refers to as her "children". Roughly half of them are Australian fig trees.
Security cameras showed two men getting out of a vehicle in the rain, entering Warabi-en and walking out with bonsai trees in their hands. Imai said 24 pots, worth 7 million yen ($49,000 ...