Bonsai: Miniature Tray-Planted Trees

The name “Bonsai” comes the Japanese “bon” literally meaning “tray”, so to mean a ‘bon-planted tree’. It is the art of any aesthetically miniaturized tree or tree-like plant grown in containers. To call them all “bonsai” is a western umbrella term but should only be correctly used to describe the shaping and re-potting techniques of Japanese tradition.