outdoor bonsai shrub

September 15, 2008 by Trees · Leave a Comment
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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.
Dwarf Jasmine tree - 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.
Jasmine Bonsai Tree More details here

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.

It is 12 years old and potted in an 8″ blue rectangle container.