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Bonsai Tools

Short list of essential bonsai tools includes scissors, wire cutters, pliers, branch cutters, and tweezers.

 

The following are the top 11 bonsai tools that beginners should prepare, so they could get started in cultivating and growing their bonsai plants.

1. Concave Pruner

2. Knob Cutter

3. Wire Cutters

4. Bud Scissors

5. Root Cutter

6. Root Hook

7. Tweezers

8. Jin Pliers

9. Saws

10. Gouges

11. Brushes

Bonsai Classical Styles

​Many different styles of Bonsai have evolved over the years and are presented here in their Japanese forms.

 

Bonsai seeks to cultivate and replicate trees, articulating their features, nuances, forms, and structures in miniture.   Bonsai is science, art, and meditative study.

 

The Chinese traditional style does not seek to wire and manipulate the tree, but rather seeks to prune and maintain its original, natural condition in miniture organic form.

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