{"id":249,"date":"2010-02-01T23:18:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:18:55","slug":"suitable-tree-types-bonsai-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/suitable-tree-types-bonsai-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitable Tree Types for Bonsai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people, especially bonsai beginners, wonder what types of tree are suitable for bonsai, and which types of bonsai tree they should buy.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started bonsai gardening, I had the same questions about bonsai trees for my bonsai teacher as well. And very soon, I learned that there is actually no tree type especially for bonsai .  We can train almost any tree into a bonsai tree.  There are bonsai trees that are easier to train and maintain than other trees.  Yet, for a real bonsai expert, who has superb bonsai techniques and skills, trees of almost all tree types can be trained into bonsai trees.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Bonsai Tree - Elm\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48 \" title=\"Bonsai Tree - Elm\" src=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-001.jpg\" alt=\"Bonsai Tree - Elm\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elm (\u6986\u6a39)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Bonsai Tree - Fukien Tea\" href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47 \" title=\"Bonsai Tree - Fukien Tea\" src=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-002.jpg\" alt=\"Bonsai Tree - Fukien Tea\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-002.jpg 800w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bonsai-tree-002-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fukien Tea (\u798f\u5efa\u8336)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Above are two of my very first bonsai trees &#8211; an Elm and a Fukien Tea.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, for many of us bonsai tree lovers, who are not (yet) bonsai gurus, we probably want a bonsai tree that is not too challenging, but common and easy to maintain.  Ok, all bonsai trees do require quite a bit of care and maintenance.  Yet, it is definitely easier to find resources and help for our bonsai tree if it is a common tree species, but not a rare one.<\/p>\n<p>So, here I have compiled a <a title=\"Tree Species Commonly Used for Bonsai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/201001\/tree-species-common-bonsai-trees\/\">list of tree species that are commonly used for bonsai trees<\/a>. I hope you will find it helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people, especially bonsai beginners, wonder what types of tree are suitable for bonsai, and which types of bonsai tree they should buy. When I first started bonsai gardening, I had the same questions about bonsai trees for my bonsai teacher as well. And very soon, I learned that there is actually no tree type &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/suitable-tree-types-bonsai-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suitable Tree Types for Bonsai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}