Your Guide to Bonsai Care

Learn how to care for Adenium obesum, the Desert Rose, with expert tips on light, watering, soil, and more to keep your bonsai thriving.

Discover the Chinotto Orange bonsai—fragrant blooms, bitter fruit, and rich symbolism. Learn care tips at Mă-Kè Bonsai Portugal.

Common Lilac, a member of the Olive family and has pink, lilac sweet-scented flowers. Native to the Balkan and South East Asia.

Forsythia suspensa An early flowering spring shrub, native to China and extensively cultivated in Japan for its blooms of golden-yellow...

Gardenia jasminoides, is native to the Far East from India through to Japan. Its creamy white flowers are very fragrant.

Crataegus monogyna The Hawthorn is Native to Europe, Western Asia and North-West Africa. A small deciduous tree growing to about 8...

Crataegus laevigata The Midland Hawthorn is a native of Europe, and in the UK is commonly found in the Midlands, where it is a small tree...

Crataegus cuneata Native to China it is widely cultivated in Japan and Korea. Growing to about 15 meters is slightly taller than the...

Berberis thunbergii, Barberry is a deciduous, compact, spiny, shrub native to Japan. Widely grown as an ornamental plant.

Ribes sanguineum, Flowering Red Currant, is a native of Northern America where it is commonly known as Blood Currant. It grows to 10 meters.

Ribes rubrum, a native of Europe, or Red Currants, are confused with red currants, which are actually dried grapes.

The Cinquefoil, Potentilla fruticosa, is widely grown in the temperate regions from Europe to Japan, where it is cultivated for its colour.

The Japanese Privet or Waxy-leaf Privet is native to China, Korea and Japan and is an evergreen shrub that grows to 5 meters tall.

The Crab Apple or Wild Apple (Malus Silvestri) is a deciduous tree, growing to about 10 meters, native to most of Europe.

The Firethorn is a semi-deciduous shrub, growing to about 4 meters. Native to most of Europe, it is infrequent in the wild.

Kojo-no-mai is a small shrub/trees it has crocked branches and delicate white flowers with pink centres which appear to hang like lanterns.

Chaenomeles japonica The Japanese Quince is much loved for their tiny, lovely flowers and showy golden fruit. The flower colours vary...

Camellia sinensis is a small evergreen leaf from whose leaves tea is made. Camellia sinensis is native to the Indian Subcontinent.