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Outdoor Bonsai TreesPages Purple Beech (fagus sylvatica 'purpurea') Also known as Copper Beech. A great colorful addition to any bonsai collection. Has leaves that are reddish or purple. The purple color leaves turn to a bronzy green in the summer heat. Has smooth grey bark. Leaves turn red/brown in fall and hang on the tree well into winter. Deciduous. Keep outdoors. 10 years old. 16"-19" tall. Suitable 14.5"x10.5" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $11.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $19.95. Weeping Pussy Willow (salix caprea 'kilmarnock') A delightful mini Weeping Pussy Willow tree. In early spring the branches are covered with large, fluffy, silvery catkins followed by studded golden anthers. Lovely green foliage follows. Grafted head onto rootstock. Branches arch straight down making a beautiful display in all seasons. Excellent choice to accent a deck, patio or pond. Decideous. Keep outdoors. 9 years old. 21" tall. Potted in a 8.5" ceramic oval/clamshell terra cotta color container as shown. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $4.95. Shipped via UPS ground - $29.95. Burning Bush (euonymous 'little moses') 'Little Moses' is a true dwarf form of the common Euonymus which has bright red foliage in the fall that is hard to miss. The leaves of the 'little moses' are much smaller and the branching is even better than the common Euonymus. The color starts a little later, but the leaves hold on the tree, bright red, for much longer. The color starts as a deep maroon and gradually turns brilliant red. Deciduous. Keep outdoors. 8 years old. 16" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $12.95. Japanese Larch (larix leptolepsis) Also known as 'Larix Kaempferi'. The very beautiful Larch is an unusual genus, one of the handful of decideous conifers which is very popular among bonsai growers around the world. Unlike many conifers, Larix cones are purplish in color and are quite small and seem in proportion to most sizes of bonsai. The color of the foliage is bright lime green at the start of the season, bright to dark green during the Summer and yellow to bronze in the autumn. 7 years old. 15" x 18" tall Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $14.95. Colorado Blue Spruce (picea pungens glauca) Conifer (cone bearing) tree with distinctive blue-green evergreen needles. The tree color can vary from dark green through all shades of blue-green to powderwhite blue. Keep outdoors. Prefers full sun. 8 years old. 18"-21" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via ups 2-3 days $14.95 Camellia (camellia oleifera) Autumn flowering evergreen with large single pink 31/2" pink blooms. Has glossy drak blue-green leaves with a loose arching habit. Keep outdoors and protect from winter winds. Hardy to -5F. 8 years old. 14"-16" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $11.95 Japanese Beech (fagus crenata) Native to Japan where it is used extensively for bonsai. Has 2" long x 1" wide foliage that is a little more oval than the European Beech. The foliage turns brown in autumn and remains on the tree until spring when new growth pushes off the old leaves. The smooth grey-white bark is typical of other Beeches. Deciduous. Keep outdoors. 7 years old. 12" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $11.95 Redwood (metasequoia glyptostroboides) Really the most exciting of the Redwoods is the Dawn Redwood, a native of Manchuria China. Thought to be extinct, but re-discovered in the 1940's. The Dawn Redwood is a true Redwood. Like our Redwoods they are a living fossil an isolated "relic" species from a long time ago when there were vast forests of them. Seeds were introduced in the U.S. in 1948, and has been increasingly popular as an ornamental tree. The foliage is more lacey than our native Redwood but what is very different about the Dawn Redwood is that it is decideous. In the fall the light green sprays turn yellow, then bronze, and fall off. Only the Larches do that. 14 years old. 16"-19" tall. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $4.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $19.95. Osmanthus (heterophyllus ?goshiki?) Native to Japan. The Japanese false holly has holly-like, spined leaves. Rich gold-splashed variegation and copper-colored new growth make this one a winner. Hardy. Keep outdoors. 6 years old. 7" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $10.95. Rock Hornbeam (carpinus turczaninovii) Native to Korea, China and Japan. Full size leaves are 2" but reduce nicely as bonsai. New foliage is a deep bronze color which turns to a combination of red, orange and yellow in the fall. The catkins are about 2" long. Produces hop-like flowers and seed pods when mature. Early spring image shown. Decideous. Keep outdoors. 9 years old. 14"-16" tall. Suitable 8"x6" humidity tray is redcommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $13.95. Weeping White Birch (betula pendula 'trosts dwarf') This dwarf only grows to 3-4 feet tall, and is highly sought after for bonsai. It has a fine textured thread-leafed light green foliage that looks like a weeping laceleaf maple. Has a peeling bark trunk with pendulous catkins. Distinctive white bark which is colored by a pigment called, appropriately enough, betulin. Much loved for bonsai because of their elegant beauty. Does not do well in shade. Decideous. Keep outdoors. 7 years old. 13"-15" tall. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $4.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $13.95. Hokkaido Elm-Large (ulmus parvifolia 'hokkaido') Native to Japan and Korea, the Hokkaido Elm is a Chinese Elm, not troubled by the Dutch Elm disease that has destroyed so many other species. It is extremely slow growing and will grow only to about 18" tall. The Hokkaido forms a rugged trunk with a corky bark that flakes off in rounded plates. This cultivar of ulmus has the tiniest leaf of all Elms (only 3/8" long)and they are short-stalked, oval with a slightly pointed tip and toothed margins, bright green on the upper surface, lighter green underneath. Very nice fall coror. Decideous. Temperate. Protect from frost. 11 years old. 12" tall. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $4.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $12.95. Pages |