Plant Species In Stock Suitable For Bonsai

Pre-bonsai or starters

This is the list of pre-bonsai or starters that Bishopsford usually have in stock, there may be the occasional out of stocks.  We have 900 to 1000 plants in stock and approximately 63 species. We don’t have all our starters listed on our website as the stock is too large and constantly changing.

Acacia family:

  • Senegalia (Acacia) burkei – Black Monkey Thorn
  • Senegalia (Acacia) galpinii – Monkey thorn
  • Vachellia (Acacia) siberiana – Paperbark Acacia
  • Vachellia (Acacia) xanthophloea – Fever tree – out of stock

Azalea – Kurume

Azalea – Satsuki 

Baobab – out of stock

Bougainvillea – small and usual size flowers

Buddleja

Buxus

Carissa bispinosa – Forest num-num

Cedrus atlantica glauca – Blue Atlas cedar – out of stock

Celtis sinensis – Chinese hackberry

Chinese Maple – Acer buergerianum

Chojubai (propagation underway)

Coleonema – Cape May

Coral tree – Erythrina

Correa alba – white correa

Cotoneaster

Crassula tetragona

Dalbergia

Diospyrus lycioides – Bushveld bluebush

Duranta

Elm family:

  • Catlin – Ulmus parvifolia catlin
  • Cork Bark Elm – Ulmus parvifolia cork bark
  • Seiju – Ulmus parvifolia seiju
  • Zelkova – Japanese grey bark Elm 

Eugenia – Australian bush cherry

Euonymus

Ficus family:

  • Ficus religiosa – Bodhi tree
  • Ficus bizanae – Pondoland Fig
  • Ficus burtt-davyi nana and bigger leaf varieties
  • Ficus natalensis
  • Ficus Little Gem
  • Ficus microcarpa

Flowering Quince – Chaenomeles speciosa – out of stock

Galpinia transvaalica – Wild Pride of India

Hinoki Cypress – not available as pre-bonsai

Japanese Black pine – Pinus thunbergii

Japanese Maple – green & red

Juniper family:

  • Hollywood Juniper – Juniperus chinensis – out of stock
  • Itoigawa Juniper – Juniperus chinensis Itoigawa
  • Juniperus chinensis mint julep
  • Juniper Grey Owl – Juniperus virginiana Grey Owl
  • Juniper procumbens nana – dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper
  • Juniperus conferta – Shore Juniper – out of stock
  • Blaauw’s Juniper – very limited stock

Kei Apple

Milkwood 

Myrtle

Operculicarya decaryi

Privet

Red Japanese Maple

Serissa – Chinese Snow rose

Sophora – Kowhai – out of stock

Spekboom – Portulacaria afra

Swamp Cypress – Taxodium distichum

Tamarisk

Virginia creeper

Wild Olive – Olea europaea subsp africana

Yew – Taxus baccata

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