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Bonsai for Beginners

Bonsai gardening is a timeless art form of literally miniaturizing trees.  The art itself is well over 2000 years old, and started during China’s Han dynasty.  The Chinese word meaning bonsai gardening, pen’jing, means “tray scenery” or “tree or shrub planted in a shallow tray”.  It was called bonsai by the Japanese, who adopted the practice around the ninth century. 
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