outdoor bonsai shrub
Small ornamental bonsai shrubs you can use as a specimen tree on your patio or in the garden by your front door.
This outdoor bonsai shrub is a flowering jasmine, the color is yellow.
Price is 49.95 – more details and shipping information here
This is a true small jasmine shrub growing only 12″ tall. Native to NW India and the Himalayas. It has very nice gold/green tiny leaves. The blooms appear very thick during late winter and into spring with yellow 1/2″ flowers that contrast with the bright green branches. This bonsai is a rare deciduous tree and needs to be kept outdoors.
Next up is another favorite outdoor bonsai tree, bothe of these shrubs are classified as a flowering bonsai tree.
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Winter Jasmine is native to western China and has been cultivated in the West since the mid 1800’s. It has bright, glossy, green pinnate leaves divided into 3 oblong leaflets. We grow this winter hardy, vine-like shrub into tree form. Before the foliage appears this flowering beauty bears 1″ bright yellow blooms at the base of its stems and slowly blooms up the stems. By late winter it flowers at the tips of the stems. Branches will root and produce new plants where trailing branches touch moist soil.
One of the more popular outdoor bonsai shrubs is a forsythia it also happens to be a one of a kind bonsai tree. This outdoor bonsai is an early flowering deciduous shrub which we have grown into tree form. Flowers profusely in early spring before the leaves appear. The flowers are 1″-2″ and are bright golden yellow, bell shaped with 4 narrow petals in groups of 1-3 at each node along the branch. Oval serrated green leaves appear once the flowers have opened.
- You can get more deatails of this bonsai at the nursery here.
It is 12 years old and potted in an 8″ blue rectangle container.
Other types of bonsai trees
- Walking Stick Bonsai Tree - This is a filbert tree but doesn’t produce any nuts. It is a very interesting tree that looks like a branch. It is also for a deciduous tree and needs to be kept outdoors. This tree has beautifully twisted weeping branches that are very striking when bare. In late winter to early spring, 2-3″ long, yellowish catkins
- azalea bonsai - Azalea bonsai the perfect flowering bonsai tree for a patio A Chinese azalea is unlike other bonsai azaleas that bloom in the spring, the Chinzan can bloom frequently throughout the year with one or more pink blooms. Satsuki Azaleas are known for their prized flowers and small evergreen leaves this plant has always been the favored
- Filbert Bonsai Tree - A small hazelnut tree is another type outdoor bonsai tree that is quite unique.
- Small Trees For Patio Area - Many home and garden landscape magazines show you all kinds of different trees and shrubs that you can plant along the edges of your patio. But did you know the best small trees for a patio area are japanese bonsai trees. Your choices in a small ornamental tree for the patio area is between a deciduous
- podocarpus bonsai - A beautiful specimen of a Buddhist pine bonsai tree Podocarpus macrophyllus is actually known by three different names. Buddhist pine, Chinese Yew bonsai and of course podocarpus bonsai. This indoor bonsai tree is a dense evergreen bonsai with pointed, leathery yew like dark green leaves that are very stiff and pointing out from symmetrical branches. The
- Maple bonsai tree - Ornamental maple trees grown and trained for their beauty in the outdoor garden. Fall colors really highight the looks of these maple trees.

