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How Much Does a Bonsai Tree Cost? Budget to Premium

Bonsai spans an enormous price range depending on whether you're buying seeds, a young live tree, or a specimen with years of development already done. Here's what that spread actually looks like in our own catalogue.

Our picks

  1. 30 Chinese Elm Bonsai Seeds (Ulmus Parvifolia) — Seed pack (30 seeds)
    Chinese Elm Bonsai Seed pack (30 seeds)

    1. 30 Chinese Elm Bonsai Seeds (Ulmus Parvifolia)

    The cheapest way into bonsai — a seed pack, at the cost of years before you have anything resembling a shapeable tree.

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  2. Planters' Choice Bonsai Starter Kit — Kit, 5 varieties
    Grow-Your-Own Kits Kit, 5 varieties

    2. Planters' Choice Bonsai Starter Kit

    A step up from raw seeds — a boxed kit with pots, soil discs and instructions included.

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  3. Chinese Elm Bonsai — S Trunk, Ceramic Pot with Drip Tray — S (small) trunk
    Chinese Elm Bonsai S (small) trunk

    3. Chinese Elm Bonsai — S Trunk, Ceramic Pot with Drip Tray

    A genuine live tree at the lower end of what an already-established bonsai costs.

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  4. Chinese Elm Bonsai Tree — 9 Year (You Choose) — 9 years old
    Chinese Elm Bonsai 9 years old

    4. Chinese Elm Bonsai Tree — 9 Year (You Choose)

    A mature, 9-year specimen — real developed trunk and branch structure costs meaningfully more than a young tree.

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  5. Ficus Microcarpa (Banyan Fig) Indoor Bonsai Tree — XL — XL specimen, ceramic pot
    Ficus Bonsai XL specimen, ceramic pot

    5. Ficus Microcarpa (Banyan Fig) Indoor Bonsai Tree — XL

    Our most expensive single tree — an XL specimen with the most established structure in the catalogue.

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How we pick these lists: every product above is a real, currently-listed item from our own 45-product catalogue — we don't add anything to a guide that isn't already on the site. See our general care guide for the fundamentals, or browse the full shop for everything else.