Top selling carving bits

Bonsai Nibblers

Now available in South Africa, top selling UK made Nibblers will open a whole new world of deadwood carving possibilities.

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Get them started young

Wooden Bonsai Kit

Some fun for the kids and yourself this holiday season. Everything you need to build and decorate a low maintenance, wooden bonsai.

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You will fall in love

Tolumnia Orchids

Prepare to be completely captivated by our range of 17 varieties of these miniature orchids.

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Bonsai Tree, based in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa is an online store specializing in bonsai related merchandise, shipping daily across South Africa and the world.

Tree Talk Blog

8 tips for post collection care of wild olives

olives Yamadori

Wild olives or Olea europaea subsp. Africana are widely available across South Africa. Yamadori or collected specimens are especially desirable as bonsai material due to their overall maturity and characterful bark. In this article Terry Erasmus presents 8 simple to follow tips which will help ensure your collected wild olive makes a healthy transition from the veld to life in a bonsai container.

5 Tips for better junipers

field growing Junipers

Junipers are some of the most popular bonsai subjects around the world. In South Africa we have somewhat limited access to good material but in this article I will share 5 tips with you that I believe will help you to grow better juniper bonsai trees. From basics such as cuttings to collecting, from creating to shari to selecting a species to work with and much more.