Beni Chidori, Seigen, +50 Satsuki cultivars, and more

[Canada Bonsai]

Hi All,

I am posting this here because this forum (thank you @Bonsai Nut ) is among the routes by which I am contacted the most frequently about shipping to the USA

I have been shipping to the USA since 2018, but this was always done by email. As of May 10, 2025, at 10h00 ET the Canada Bonsai website will officially be open to orders from the USA.

General information is available here:

Ordering from the USA

Canada Bonsai welcomes orders from the USA, whether you're looking for pre-bonsai, exhibition-ready material, or anything in between.As of May 10 at 10h00 ET, the website will begin taking orders from the USATo order before May 10, please get in touch by email: Contact Canada BonsaiLet us know...

www.canadabonsai.com

As of May 10 the 2025 Annual Sale will be open to everyone. In addition to what is already listed, I will be adding a few other listings including some hard to find Japanese Maple cultivars:

Available Material 2025

This year, the Annual Spring Release was launched on March 8, at 9h00 ET'Beni Chidori' and 'Seigen' Japanese Maples were sold as pre-sale only. This option is available HEREFor orders from the USA, please click HERE before ordering

www.canadabonsai.com

I recommend singing up to the Canada Bonsai Newsletter which I use for announcements about material availability:

Newsletter

www.canadabonsai.com

Thank you
CB

 

[chicago1980]

Hi All,

I am posting this here because this forum (thank you @Bonsai Nut ) is among the routes by which I am contacted the most frequently about shipping to the USA

I have been shipping to the USA since 2018, but this was always done by email. As of May 10, 2025, at 10h00 ET the Canada Bonsai website will officially be open to orders from the USA.

General information is available here:

Ordering from the USA

Canada Bonsai welcomes orders from the USA, whether you're looking for pre-bonsai, exhibition-ready material, or anything in between.As of May 10 at 10h00 ET, the website will begin taking orders from the USATo order before May 10, please get in touch by email: Contact Canada BonsaiLet us know...

www.canadabonsai.com

As of May 10 the 2025 Annual Sale will be open to everyone. In addition to what is already listed, I will be adding a few other listings including some hard to find Japanese Maple cultivars:

Available Material 2025

This year, the Annual Spring Release was launched on March 8, at 9h00 ET'Beni Chidori' and 'Seigen' Japanese Maples were sold as pre-sale only. This option is available HEREFor orders from the USA, please click HERE before ordering

www.canadabonsai.com

I recommend singing up to the Canada Bonsai Newsletter which I use for announcements about material availability:

Newsletter

www.canadabonsai.com

Thank you
CB

Thank you, email message sent.

 

[Time Wizard]

Very tempting. I'm taking it the minimum order size/processing fee still applies?

 

[Shogun610]

Email sent as well for future

 

[Canada Bonsai]

I'm taking it the minimum order size/processing fee still applies?

Thanks for your interest -- orders any size are possible:

Ordering from the USA

Canada Bonsai welcomes orders from the USA, whether you're looking for pre-bonsai, exhibition-ready material, or anything in between.As of May 10 at 10h00 ET, the website will begin taking orders from the USATo order before May 10, please get in touch by email: Contact Canada BonsaiLet us know...

www.canadabonsai.com

 

[Canada Bonsai]

2 weeks to go

 

[Canada Bonsai]

1 week

 

[yashu]

Any idea if things are going to get held up due to the tariff shenanigans and the repeal of the de minimis loophole? I’m a little worried about live plant material being held up and damaged or killed.

 

[Canada Bonsai]

Any idea if things are going to get held up due to the tariff shenanigans and the repeal of the de minimis loophole? I’m a little worried about live plant material being held up and damaged or killed.

Thanks for your interest

No buyer will ever be charged tarrifs or duties, and the trees cannot get held up at the border because they are shipping to you from within the USA. Depending where you are in Maine, I might deliver myself right to your door.

 

[Canada Bonsai]

10 min

 

[Canada Bonsai]

30 BC left
Seigen sold out

Lots of other stuff available too, i’m just highlighting these 2 cultivars because questions about them have filled my inbox for 5 years

 

[leatherback]

Seigen sold out

do you propagate them on their own roots or do you graft them? If on their own roots.. Any insights that you can share as to how?

 

[Canada Bonsai]

do you propagate them on their own roots or do you graft them? If on their own roots.. Any insights that you can share as to how?

I have been propagating them since I first got them in 2018, but I also import them from Japan because there is no way that I can produce enough.

I have experienced high and low success rates with Seigen. This year, I have somewhere around 80-90% success doing for them exactly what I did for all of my maple cultivars. I don't know if I will have the same success rates next year.

Below are three notes that may or may not be of value -- I say it this way because I am working with a sample size of 50-300 Seigen cuttings since 2018, which to me is a volume that invalidates all of the observations listed below. (All of my Seigen material comes from the same parent plant in Japan, as does the Seigen material that I import every year. I unfortunately can't import the parent tree because it is 10mm in diameter -- it's a former Kokufu tree).

1 - For almost all maple cultivars, when I take cuttings in Spring (May-June) I can generally repot them 6-8 weeks later. I don't do this for Seigen, because they simply don't send out shoots or roots at the same rate. Instead, I leave them in the propagation tray over winter, and repot in Feburary during 'repotting season'. In anticipation of this, instead of placing the cuttings 2.5cm apart, I place them 5cm apart giving more space for light and root growth.

2- For many cultivars, I will take cuttings in Spring (May-June) and then use the second flush to take hardwood cuttings in Winter (December-January). However, I have never been able to do this very well with Seigen because the 2nd flush after I take the spring cuttings tends to stay whispy.

3 For Spring cuttings, I have tested different timings, length of cuttings, and different quantities of leaves with no observable difference. I have also separated cuttings from the base, center, and tips of shoots to see if any of these sections have higher of lower success rates, but once again I could not detect any patterns.