Bonsai is one of the art of pruning plants (trees) in order to grow a dwarf, mini, or a dwarf. Therefore, to obtain a perfect bonsai requires a relatively long time. In addition, it also requires creativity, patience, perseverance and love for creation of plants as a major cornerstone in the creation and maintenance of bonsai. Bonsai term itself comes from the Mandarin "penzai". In Japanese, bonsai comes from the word bon, meaning the pot and sai which means the plant. Thus bonsai plants that can be interpreted as dikerdilkan and planted in pots. This means dwarf plants, both old pliers and others who have the rules of bonsai, but are not planted in pots, can not be called bonsai. On the contrary, if any plants or trees planted in pots but did not have the criteria of bonsai unbiased called bonsai. Keep in mind, dwarfed in the art of bonsai has a broad sense. Each species of dwarf plants have different limits. Plants that could be categorized as stunted height of 1 meter, and the height is only 0.5 meters not included in the category of dwarf. Thus, the dwarf in the art of bonsai is a plant that has the appearance of more petite than the original plant. Thus, herbaceous plants or shrubs although less than one meter tall unbiased categorized dwarf. Because in their natural habitat is only about one meter high.
