small flowering trees

For a patio area or the front entrance to your home, outdoor bonsai trees make ideal small flowering trees for small spaces. The enjoyable part of growing these small trees are that they can be planted in decorative containers.

Most small flowering trees lose their foliage in autumn and require a dormant period during winter.
A few favorite bonsai varieties of small blooming trees and shrubs that you can buy direct from the nursery are evergreens namely, flowering pyracantha and azalea. All are easy to grow and care for. Other varieties which are deciduous are flowering and fruiting. The trees in this group include flowering crab apple, japanese wisteria, korean lilac, flowering quince and mini jasmine tree. Read more

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 or an evergreen tree.  Deciduous trees are best if you enjoy seeing the leaves turn color in the autumn months. If your patio gets a lot of shade then an evergreen may be best for you. 

If you don’t want your patio container tree to be over 2 feet in height then outdoor bonsai trees are the perfect choice, some varieties do flower and produce fruit. These are not dwarf trees but full grown trees that are easily trained in a bonsai style. As with any small patio tree grown on a deck it still must get a bit if direct sun to grow properly. Read more

Starter Bonsai

Are you ready to grow your own bonsai, starter bonsai trees are what you need

Chinese elm or a small juniper that is at least 4 inches tall are two of the best starter bonsai trees to give as a gift or to start your own collection. They will grow in all conditions with a minimum amount of care.

These are not prebonsai trees, but small ornamental trees that are started for you in the shape of a bonsai and already a few years old. If this is your first tree I would recommend a juniper bonsai and grow it on your patio.

Junipers are the number one choice for starting your own collection and as a starter tree without having to buy trimming tools right away. This tree type gets its unique shape by using training wire to bend the trunk. Needles and branches are simply trimmed by pinching off with your finger. The most familiar shape is the karate kid tree.

shipping and more information on other cheap starter trees, – Click here to view trees recommended to start indoors

Juniper bonsai starter trees, ideal for beginners

Starter Kit contains: Everything you need to grow and maintain your own bonsai tree. Plus it is on sale and comes with general planting and care instructions on how to grow bonsai trees.

• Three year old juniper tree: botanical name (procumbens nana) comes with a glazed ceramic bonsai pot with drainage hole covers.
• Copper training wire the proper soil mix and textured decorative rock.
• instructions for potting, training and maintenance
• miniature bonsai figurine
• the all important humidity drip tray
• Go here to buy direct from the nursery

Many enthusiasts like to grow these as a patio decoration and place on a table to have as a display tree. You can bring them into your home to display for short periods of time.

If you want to buy an indoor japanese bonsai there are easy to grow varieties that you can read more about Japanese flowering bonsai here.

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.
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.

• 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.