What is Bonsai ? The Bonsai history

   The word bonsai is Japanese, has the same meaning as the ancient Chinese word pun-sai, a word that was used in China since the length to describe the trees based on weather and other adversities, could not develop naturally been impaired size. These small trees were recovered in the mountains of this country by expert growers and then be planted and grown in pots, maintaining the ways that were barely recovered without subjecting them to modeling techniques as is done today. It seems that the onset of this type of crop trees was not unique but landscapes were composed of several trees with rocks, houses, figures and other represent elements necessary to achieve a natural landscape and call this other expression, you used the word PUN-CHING. The first known documents that speak of it, go back to the years About 215 BC AD, and is therefore no doubt that the cultivation of BONSAI began more than two thousand years in China.