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Almost any species of tree or shrub could technically be grown and shaped as a bonsai. Most commonly, folks might think of evergreen trees like cedar or fir, but the evergreen perennial fuchsia is an ...

However, dogwood are not the easiest trees to bonsai and aren’t typically recommended for beginners. Dogwood Classification and Names. The dogwood tree belongs to a genus Cornus, with 30 to 60 species ...

Instead, bonsai practice focuses on long-term cultivation and the formation of one or more small trees in a pot. The practice of bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfism, but dwarfism usually refers ...

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Indeed, any woody perennial has a decent chance of making a good bonsai. And while we consider them trees, only the mature bonsai needs the tree-like shape, which is often easy to coax from a shrub. A ...