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Bonsai Starter Plants - Pomegranates, Juniper, Maples & more - $20 (Mission Viejo)
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Rare Japanese cultivar Pomegranates.
1gal pots.
Started Spring/Summer 2020.
Reduced/pruned into single trunk-line every winter and was wired into a nice spiral/corkscrew when young for nice movement.
$25 each.
What's left...
1x - Omi
Orange red single flowers with very prominent yellow anthers. Sets lots of edible 4” fruit.
2x - Toyosho
Salmon pink double flowers (very nice and my fave). Sometimes/rarely sets smaller 2-3” fruit. Grown more for flowers, than edible fruit. Flowers are smaller 1.5-2” too.
1x - Evergreen's Red Dwarf. Similar to the rare Emperor cultivar.
Semi-dwarf to about 5’ tall if never pruned. Orange red single flowers with tiny 2” fruits (like the Emperor cv), sometimes darker/mahogany in color. Grown more for its' dwarf-size, smaller leaves, twiggy'ness, shorter internodes (all great for bonsai) than edible fruit.
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San Jose Juniper.
5gal pots with nice +1-1.5" trunks.
Main branch structure/bones/trunk trained recently. Now, letting it grow out again.
One of them is a cascade style.
2 left.
$180 each obo.
Note: San Jose Junipers are not to be mistaken with the cheaper, more common, much smaller, ground-cover Procumbens Nana Juniper Bonsai like you'd normally find in Home Depot, Armstrong or other nurseries. San Jose (similar to Prostrata Juniper) grow much much larger, nicer trunks and are naturally a large, wide, but low growing plant (5-6' wide and 3-4' tall if never pruned).
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Portulacaria Afra, Elephant Bush.
Small/short bonsai w/ fat chunky +1.5" trunks and very nice trunk taper and movement.
Trunk chopped (from +3' tall plants) to form a nice taper, best movement and trunk line.
1gal pots.
3 left.
$80 each obo.
The one in the 2-3gal pot, is very nice too with lots of ramification, nice branch structure & big trunk. One of the branches are semi-cascade to cascade.
That one is $180 obo.
Also have a larger (3-4' tall), +30yo "specimen" that I've been training/pruning for several years (mostly "clip & grow" directional pruning). Super nice branch structure, pads and tons of ramification.
$1k obo.
This one will require a 2nd passenger to hold it safely in the car. As Portulacaria Afra are kinda soft & brittle and will break branches easily if the pot/plant falls over.
You can probably also lay it sideways in the trunk or rear seats, with foam or small boxes to hold/support the trunk, to give room/space for the branches.
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Firethorn Pyracantha
1 gal pots
Started 2020.
Reduced/pruned into single trunk-line every winter and wired into a nice spiral/corkscrew for movement.
1 left
$25 each.
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Older Red Dwarf and Omi Pomegranates.
5 gal pots.
Couple years old, around +7yo by now (on 2023).
1-1.5" trunks.
Reduced/pruned into a single trunk-line and trunk chopped (from 3-4' tall plants) every winter and bent with wire for nicer movement.
1 of each.
More expensive than the smaller 1gals obviously, $100 each.
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Clivia Miniata
2-3gal pots
5-6 of them
$25 each.
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I also have a couple extra Japanese Sweet Flag and rare Chinese Lucky Grass in 1gal pots.
$15 each for the Sweet Flag.
$25 each for the more rare Lucky Grass.
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Japanese cultivar Japanese Flowering Quinces (Chaenomeles) in small 2-3/4" & 4" pots.
Iwai Nishiki (double-flower, very vibrant pure red)
O Yashima (double-flower, pure bright white)
Only have 11 available
$25 each.
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Air-layered Japanese cultiver Japanese Maples.
NO ugly, bulging graft-unions (perfect for bonsai)!
Note: Pretty much All the JMs you'll find at local nurseries or even online will be "grafted" for easy/fast mass-production; but, their big Con is it'll always have an ugly, bulgy graft-union and an uneven hump from different understock-to-upperstock thickness.
Since these are rare, highly-desired cultivars & also air-layers (very rare to find for sale) and take 1.5 years to make (first air-layer on the tree for 6-9 months, then another 6-9 months to root/establish into their new, current pots), these will be much more expensive than nursery/online grafted JMs (air-layers are intended for more serious/advanced bonsai aficionados).
If you want cheaper ones, there's plenty of grafted J maples at Armstrong, Green Thumb, Home Depot, Plant Depot... or even online, eBay, Etsy, Mr. Maple, etc.
Small 1gal & bigger low-profile 14" wide pots (nursery pots chopped down) available.
1gals: $320 each obo.
14" wide low-profile pots: $580 each obo.
Shin Deshojo: 1x 1gal & 1x 14" pots avail
Kiohime / Kiyohime: 2x 1gal pots avail
Akaji Nishiki: 3x 1gal pots & 1x 14" pots avail
Katsura: 3x 1gal pots & 1x 14" pots avail
Shishigashira: 1x 1gal avail
(once I only have one more left of each cultivar, I will take them off sale; as I want to keep at least one for myself)
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Available Spring 2026...
Recent urban-dori (urban yamadori) dig of 3 Japanese Flowering Quinces. Just waiting for them to root-out and establish in their new pots and also sprout new foliage.
Very big & thick 3-4" root-base/nebari.
For experienced bonsai-heads, it is well known that it's very difficult to grow or find Chaenomeles material with thick trunks and nebari.
Thick specimens are very valuable.
These have very thick root-bases/nebari because they've been grown in the ground for 5 years (my notes say since 2020), in addition to being grown in pot as a seedling before that.
1 Iwai Nishiki (red double flower), 3" thick nebari: $320
1 Iwai Nishiki (red double flower), 3.5"-4" thick nebari: $420
1 O Yashima (white double flower), +4.5" thick nebari: $520
These are basically raw material and you still need to develop ramification (with constant pinching and pruning). But, the hard part, the foundation (trunk/nebari thickening) is there and already done.
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Available Spring-Summer 2026 (waiting for them to root out and grow)
Male Sago Palm Pups
Small 4" pots
$25 each
You can get much bigger, older Sago Palms at any nursery for same price (Home Depot, Armstrong, Green Thumb, etc.). But, you won't know its' sex until they are much older (15 years old at least).
Males are much more desired because they always have a much nicer round canopy (because they don't make the huge seed pods/clusters like the Females; Female canopies look like flat-discs or UFOs when bigger/older), Males grow smaller/slower, and much less hassle/mess to maintain (again, no seed pods).
These pups were taken from my older, in-ground, Male sago palms.