What is a Bonsai ?

Most people are familiar with a bonsai’s appearance ,but what is a bonsai. Not every tree growing a pot will qualify as . For a tree to be regarded as a bonsai, it must have certain defining characteristics: it must be grown in a container; it must have a distinctive artistic shape; and it must be miniature in size, should be a small-scale replica in a pot of a fully grown tree that you might see in nature, its size and aesthetic appearance controlled by regular pruning, pinching and shaping, watering and feeding.

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