Sixty-year-old Japanese black pine bonsai in hand-thrown ceramic pot, morning light catching deadwood jin, soil carpeted in miniature moss
Specimen Bonsai Nursery

Sixty Years of Patience,
Sitting on Your Table.

Each tree carries its own history — decades of wiring, pruning, and patience encoded in every curve of bark. We shape living sculpture for collectors who understand that time is the medium.

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58Years cultivating
340+Living specimens
12Species families
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Spring
— Season One

The Earth
Wakes Up

March through May: every tree on the bench is unwired, root-pruned, and repotted. We open the nursery to students during repotting season — there is no better classroom than watching a sixty-year root structure untangled by hand.

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Close-up of bonsai repotting — fresh soil and exposed roots being carefully placed in a ceramic pot
Root work, April
Bonsai wire training — copper wire coiled around a young maple branch in close-up
First wiring
New spring buds emerging on a bonsai juniper branch, bright chartreuse against dark bark
Spring Care

Root pruning removes up to 40% of mass. The tree responds by exploding into growth.

Repotting season: March–May
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Summer
— Season Two

Full Canopy,
Full Character

The outdoor benches fill with trees at their most expressive. Each specimen has a history card — origin, age, significant styling events. You're not buying a tree; you're inheriting a story.

Shimpaku juniper bonsai in literati style, twisted trunk with dense foliage pads on white display stand
Specimen Grade

42 years · Literati

Shimpaku Juniper

Collected, Gifu Prefecture

$2,400Inquire →
Trident maple bonsai with full summer canopy, fine branch ramification visible against light background

28 years · Moyogi

Trident Maple

Air-layered, nursery stock

$890Inquire →
Sixty-year Japanese black pine with thick trunk and dramatic deadwood jin, specimen grade
Specimen Grade

61 years · Chokkan

Japanese Black Pine

Yamadori, Shizuoka

$6,800Inquire →
Chinese elm bonsai in broom style with dense fine twigwork, small ceramic oval pot

15 years · Broom

Chinese Elm

Cultivar nursery grown

$380Inquire →

Inventory rotates seasonally. 340+ trees currently on the benches.

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Autumn
— Season Three

Fire in the
Foliage

October is the peak. Trident maples turn the entire nursery gold and crimson. We hold open days for collectors to select trees at their most expressive.

Fiery trident maple bonsai with brilliant crimson and gold autumn foliage against warm bokeh background

"The color lasts three weeks.
The memory lasts a lifetime."

— Nursery notes, October 2023

I brought my first bonsai here after killing two ficus in six months. They didn't sell me anything. They spent an hour showing me what I was doing wrong. I left with a Chinese elm and a mentor.

Marguerite Holloway

Hobbyist, 3 years · Portland, OR

The trident maple I sourced for a hotel lobby has become the conversation piece of the entire building. Guests photograph it. The GM called to ask if we could get three more.

Rafael Dominguez

Interior Designer · San Francisco, CA

I've been collecting for twenty-two years and attended Kokufu-ten twice. The quality of material here is the closest thing I've found in the United States to what I saw in those Japanese exhibition halls.

Thomas Wainwright

Serious Collector · Seattle, WA

Winter
— Season Four

Bark, Bone,
and Deadwood

Winter silhouette of a bonsai — bare branches against pale sky, bark texture and deadwood jin exposed without foliage

"Strip away the foliage and the tree reveals its true structure — every decision made over decades, written in wood."

On the art of bonsai
60+

Years of documented history

Our oldest specimen was collected in 1962 from a cliff face in Shizuoka Prefecture. Every repotting, every styling session is recorded.

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Species families

Conifers, deciduous, tropical, and sub-tropical. We grow what survives and what rewards patience.

340+

Trees on the benches

From beginner-friendly Chinese elms at $280 to exhibition-grade pines exceeding $12,000.

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Book a Nursery Visit

Walk the benches with one of our cultivators. No sales pressure — just trees, gravel paths, and honest conversation about what you're looking for and what you're ready for.

We'll confirm within 24 hours · Open Thurs–Sun

— Your Tree is Waiting

Find Your First Tree

Four questions. We'll match you with trees from our current inventory and reach out within one working day.

Step 1 of 4

What describes you best?

We match trees to people, not just preferences.

No purchase commitment
Personal response within 24h
Photos and history included