Pickup, Delivery, and Shipping Options/Policy
Local pickup is free in the Columbus, Ohio area, or pickup is also available when I road trip, especially to bonsai shows around my area of the Midwest. Delivery is also free if not more than 15 minutes out of my way from home or on any of these trips. See here for the most updated list of pickup sites/delivery routes I will be making in the coming months.
If you would like to have any of my products shipped to you, see my Etsy page invivobonsai.etsy.com (almost all prices include shipping) or contact me if the item is not listed on my Etsy and I'll look into a cost estimate. Contacting me can also get you a cheaper price than buying through Etsy as there will be fewer fees and shipping multiple items can be combined.
Trees are the hardest to ship due to height, unusual size, and uneven weight so these are ideal for the local pickup. I will try to add more trees this summer/fall to my online store here and Etsy though for your convenience.
Japanese Black Pine / Pinus thunbergii Bonsai Available in Columbus, Ohio from In Vivo Bonsai
Japanese Black Pine are native to Japan and eastern Asia and have a long history of use in bonsai. They tolerate warm and cold weather and thicken their trunks and branches easily, especially in the ground or larger pots. Pines are a bit more advanced for bonsai practitioners because they need winter protection and their pruning is more season-specific and must be done with more strategy. I will add some resources on this later if anyone has questions. Otherwise, JBPs are very flexible for many styles once their challenges are factored in.
The trees on this page all were started from seed and grew for 1-~8 years ago in oversized pots to thicken trunks (it can be accelerated even more in the ground). Every year or two, I wire new growth, prune excess candles to eliminate excessive clusters of branching, and slip pot into a larger pot to continue giving the roots more room and access to resources for trunk thickening. The next owner should continue these practices and modify them as needed towards making more interesting designs as the trees mature.
JBP Lot 1 - 2-year-old JBP seedlings, going on 3 years. Ready for first trunk wiring.
$10 each. Good for a beginner workshop on growing from seed. (I may use them for this if I still have them by the CBS Annual Show).
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| Photographed January 2026 |
JBP Lot 2 - 6-year-old JBP seedlings, going on 7 years. Ready for first trunk wiring.
These JBP seedlings were planted 6 years ago and left to grow without any training. The trunks are ready for trunk wiring to begin their design and are very flexible. They will thicken better with a bigger pot or placement in the ground, as I keep mentioning.
$20 each. Same price for the pots with 2 plants vs 1. Also suitable for a bonsai from seed workshop.
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| Photographed January 2026 |
The wired one on the right is also available. $40.
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| Photographed January 2026 |
JBP Lot 2 - 3-4 year old JBPs. Trunk wiring has started but needs the next step styled.
Could also be slip potted anytime into a larger pot or placed in the ground.
$40 each.
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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| Photographed January 2026 |
JBP Lot 3 - ~6-7 year old JBPs grafted with the thick/cork bark "nishiki" variety. Trunk wiring has started and branch decandling for ramification.
Next steps of development: continue strategic branch decandling to promote density on the branches. Wire branches down. Place in larger pot or the ground for root development. Aged bark is already forming on the lower trunk.
$100 each.
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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| Graft union. Old, thick bark already forming. Photographed January 2026 |
JBP Lot 4 - ~4-6 year old JBPs seedlings/prebonsai. Trunk wiring has started and branch decandling for ramification + sacrifice branch selection.
The trees in Lot 4 are at more advanced stages of development. In person, the prices on the tags vary some but for simplicity here I will list them as ~$150/each. The trees have had multiple rounds trunk wiring, sacrifice branch selection, branchs simplification, and they are starting to get decandles to promote ramification where desired. They are being developed with the idea of creating multiple potential future design options and having interesting bends in trunks and branches to promote more options. Bigger pots or the ground will help to further thicken trunks.
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| Old, thick bark already forming. This one in particular is ready for a bigger pot. Photographed January 2026 |
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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| This one was decandled a little bit late in 2025. It set buds on the lower branches but did not elongate them yet. We will see those lower branches give more ramification in the coming spring. Photographed January 2026 |
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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| Photographed January 2026 |
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