I'm pretty sure what I'm looking for is a type of juniper: about 3-4 feet tall, large naturally twisted trunk, dark green scaled needles…when pruned correctly look like big bonsai.

The only things I can find for sale around here are blue rug, blue star, and something called "pom pom" — but the pom pom has straight limbs/trunk. I have exactly what I'm looking for in my front yard, but I'm moving so I have to leave it behind…sad.

Anyone know what kind of tree/shrub I'm supposed to be buying here? Much thanks in advance!

The juniper that is commonly used for bonsai is the juniperus chinensis 'green mound'. Take a look at my website:
http://www.american-bonsai.com and on the products page, there is a 'quick find' box. Enter "green mound" and it will show you some of the trees. Also you can do a search for "shimpaku" juniper.

I really have to find a bonsai in the Mesa Az area. I checked a bashas, home depot, and target. But I'm Thinking mor along the lines of a nursery. I would prefer an indoor bonsai and am really hoping I can find a Japanese cherry tree bonsai. Please help if yoou have suggestions

get your phone book out and look under "nursery" and start letting your fingers do the walking. Start at the top and call all of the nurseries asking if they have what you are looking for and then if you find one, awesome. If you can't find one, ask if they know where you could get one.

Hi Landwish, I think you're referring to the Calamansi tree (Calamondin or Citrofortunella microcarpa.) I have seen people train this plant into a bonsai. Please click on the link below and see if I got it right:

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Also the second link for another picture:

I have just heard of bonzai-ing a tree ( I know that is not the correct grammar). I want to try to do it to a lemon tree. Can I do that? How should I do that?

By pruning 1/3 of the roots and branches, restricting growth. Here's more: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bonsai+techniques&ygmasrchbtn=web+search&fr=ush-ans

I bought a second hand, mini sun bed to sustain a few bonsai trees, this winter, indoor. The sun bed has a build in transformer to power 6X40W fluorescent lamps, thus a 240W system (220V~50Hz). Unfortunately the UV-lamps do not emit the best spectrum needed for cultivation and growth. The lamps I need to replace the UV-lamps with, has to be 590mm in length, but the highest wattage, available in this length is 20W. I want to know if I am going to blow the 20W lamps if I replace the old 40W lamps. If so, why?
Hmmm, I think it is the ballast; a transformer does not make sense for it is still 220V delivered, right? Those small round things (usually glowing in the beginning to start a lamp) do I have to replace them as well? I am planning to keep 2 of the UV lamps.

Is that built in really a transformer, to provide the proper voltage? Or is it really a ballast, the transformer-like coil that gives the tubes a kick to get their fluorescent arc started at power-up?

The ballast for 40 watts is very different from the ballast for 20 watts. You would need to get enough of those 20 watt ballasts to go with the new lamps. You also need to make sure that the new fluorescent tubes have the proper sockets mounted at the proper distance apart.

One possibility to get going faster and cheaper is to get some new ones in 20 watt but keep a few of the old 40W ones. That way you might get enough total light in your preferred spectrum without sinking a lot of money and time in a complete re-do of the sun bed.

A few days ago, I received a Pyracantha bonsai tree as a gift. The labeling says it is an outdoor bonsai, but the conditions outdoors in some parts of the country/world are a lot different than the conditions outdoors in other parts of the country/world! Also, the tree is apparently supposed to have berries now (in the fall), but it doesn't. The berries seem like the would look very pretty, so I'm hoping I can get them to show up this season.
I live in Illinois, and around this time of year, temperatures usually reach about 40 to 50 degrees Farenheit in the daytime and fall into the 20s or 30s at night. Should I leave the tree outside, even in freezing temperatures? I saw on a website that you're supposed to keep it sheltered during freezes, such as in a garage, but it also needs sunlight (which it can't get in a garage). It's going to be freezing all winter — where am I supposed to keep it?
If I AM supposed to keep it inside, will it still get berries and flowers?

I keep all my hardy bonsai outside in the winter, they are in a sheltered spot against a building and covered with leaves. Once in a while I check on them to make sure they don't need watered. They are semi-evergreen, so probably won't loose their leaves. If you are worried about it, bring it in when the temps drop below freezing, keep it in a cool sunny place and water it only minimally through the winter,(but don't let it dry out completely) stepping up the watering when it starts to growing in spring. If it puts on flowers in the spring, it should have berries in the fall.

AFTER THE WORK DONE IN PART “A” WE LOOK AT MAKING CUTTINGS FROM THE BRANCHES CUT FROM THE COFFEE TREE.

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