Many trees and shrubs are suitable for traditional bonsai. Good starter stock can be found at a local nursery, Lowes, Home Depot, your own back yard, or a neighbors for that matter. (please ask before digging) Specialty nurseries often have a wide selection of dwarf and semi dwarf varieties of many species. Dwarf plants, however, [...]
"Bonsai is imagination and fantasy. You can’t just scale down a big tree, and put it in a pot. You have to paint the visions held in peoples’ minds." Morten Albek
This bonsai web site is dedicated to the living art of bonsai. West Coast Bonsai does not claim to be an authority on the art [...]