The Chinese Privet Bonsai Tree is a small version of the Chinese privet shrub, usually growing up to 45cm in height. Its leaves are small and glossy, and its flowers bloom in clusters in the summer.

Some of the bonsai include Hinoki cypress, Shimpaku juniper, Chinese privet, Japanese white pine, Ezo spruce, Chinese elm, nia (neea), yew, Scots pine and ponderosa pine.

Common European boxwood, Chinese boxwood, and Japanese boxwood are the varieties most commonly used for bonsai. Position boxwood outside in a sunny or semi-sunny area and prune aggressively ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a ...

Chinese privet was brought to the U.S. in the 1800s as a decorative hedge, but it has spread rapidly across the Southeast, now covering more than 1 million acres in Alabama alone.

Tree Privet is evergreen with strong smelling white flowers which appear from January to March and dark purple-black berries. It has glossy, dark green leaves on top which are paler green underneath.

The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles ...

The bonsai collection at U-M dates to the late 1970s, after the school received a donation of 163 trees from Dr. Maurice Seevers, chair of the University’s Department of Pharmacology for nearly ...

Growing a young bonsai into a form that resembles a mature tree requires regular pruning to encourage even growth and to remove dead limbs, foliage and errant branches. Take your time.

Darren George runs the YouTube channel Gro Bonsai, where he restores and maintains bonsai trees.He shows us how he restores an overgrown bonsai tree. This includes removing unnecessary branches to ...