In recent years, Japan’s bonsai culture has spread around the world, while at the same time bonki, the dedicated pots in which bonsai are planted ... have spread around the world while retaining the ...

Shallow pots dry out quickly, so your Japanese maple bonsai tree may need daily watering. The more sunlight they get, the more water they will need. Plants also will need to be fertilized.

Sydney-based Japanese bonsai master Megumi Bennett currently grows more than 300 bonsai pots, which she lovingly refers to as her "children". Roughly half of them are Australian fig trees.

Japanese maples are ideal for bonsai beginners, happily settling into small pots and responding well to pruning and shaping, quickly developing a canopy full of attractive palm-shaped leaves.