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weather extremes, injuries needing care, or pest infestations requiring
containment or removal.

Techniques such as pinching buds, pruning and wiring branches, and
carefully restricting but not abandoning fertilizers are used to limit and
redirect healthy growth. Most commonly kept under four feet (or about a
meter) in height, Bonsai are not genetically dwarfed plants. However,
plants with smaller leaves do make these compositions easier to design.
In fact, any plant species that has a woody stem or trunk, grows true

branches, can be successfully grown in a container to restrict its
roots/food storage capability, and has smaller or reducible-leaves can be
used to create a Bonsai.

Look around at your trees, bushes, hedges, the copses in your yard or
park, plants in the nursery or wild landscape – essentially any of those
can be starter material. Carefully collected during the appropriate growing
or dormant season with proper permission, your composition is begun.
Most native plants can then be grown outdoors; material from more
tropical climates needs at least some protection from the elements in the

temperate zones.