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There also will be demonstrations and displays of traditional Japanese arts and traditions, including an Ikebana flower arrangement, a tea ceremony, origami, shodo calligraphy and bonsai.
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Tables are intimately clustered together, some only separated by tea lights, a lovely selection of greenery (succulents, bonsai trees), and worldly trinkets.
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Making just as large an impression as one dramatic tree, but smaller in scale, is a miniature ornamental bonsai such as Japanese maple or juniper.
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Mature bonsai trees rest atop polished concrete and wood pedestals of different heights.
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Brussel will style multiple Kingsville boxwood bonsai on a lace rock.
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The program features a workshop on creating a bonsai tree, e.g. elm, sycamore, oak and hackberry.
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First on the docket is hair loss (euphemized on its site as a bonsai tree shedding its leaves), with a $44-a-month box that includes DHT shampoo, a Minoxidil dropper, and Finasteride pills.
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Participants may purchase kits and plants to make their own holiday orchid arrangement or bonsai.
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Did You Know?
This is a living dwarf tree. The word bonsai can also refer to the art of training and growing these dwarf plants in containers. Bonsai specimens are ordinary trees and shrubs, not hereditary dwarfs; they are dwarfed by a system of pruning roots and branches and training branches by tying them with wire. The art originated in China, but has been pursued and developed primarily by the Japanese. The inspiration for bonsai is found in nature, in trees that grow in harsh, rocky places, and are dwarfed and gnarled throughout their existence. Bonsai may live for a century or more and can be handed down from one generation to another. Bonsai pots, usually earthenware and of variable shape, are carefully chosen to harmonize in color and proportion with the tree. A sizable bonsai industry exists as part of the nursery industry in Japan. California is home to a small-scale bonsai industry.
Origin and Etymology of bonsai
BONSAI Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of bonsai for English Language Learners
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: a very small tree or bush that is grown in a pot by using special methods to control its growth
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: the art of growing bonsai
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