Box Tree Bonsai

The tree is presented in a custom textured crescent pot created by martha goff well known floridian potter and bonsai hobby author.

Box tree bonsai. This unique specimen possesses the smallest of foliage of all boxwood types. Boxwood have a naturally multi stemmed growth habit that lends them to being styled like large spreading park trees and it is with this style that they look their best when grown as bonsai. Placement of your japanese boxwood bonsai. The boxwood bonsai tree has tiny leathery leaves dense growth habits and rough bark make it a good bonsai tree subject.

When we hear the words evergreen we often think of conifers such as pines and junipers. Boxwoods enjoy full sun which means they will dry out faster than other potted bonsai. As boxwoods tolerate constant trimming very well and can bud from old wood they are very well suited for bonsai. The two buxus species that are commonly seen as bonsai are buxus microphylla japanese box and buxus sempervirens common box.

In europe this plant is simply referred to as box. The common boxwood buxus sempervirens tolerates frost but trees planted in containers should be protected from very low temperatures in winter. You are looking at a mature kingsville boxwood bonsai tree. The success of your bonsai depends on a variety of factors most notably watering and light.

Boxwood grow best in fully or mostly sunny locations during the growing. Buxus are evergreen shrubs. The chinese boxwood buxus harlandii has smaller and narrower leaves and a furrowed bark.