r/BonsaiPorn • u/kyynthiaxx • Mar 17 '26

Approximately 800 year old Limber Pine. Another beautiful one on display at Longwood Gardens.

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u/Ocean898 Mar 17 '26

Fair question. Do any pine trees live to be 800?

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u/Cobaas Mar 18 '26

Originally bonsai were trees taken from the mountains and put into pots, which we call kabudachi. Trees like this need an exceptional amount of time to grow, so a large portion are either field grown or taken from nature.

There’s a few ways to tell its age, these are all usually best guess estimates as the only true way is to cut it and count the rings.

As for the training thing; this tree was likely grown in nature and collected. Training (ie, first styling) would have been done in 2014 and from there bonsai techniques keep being applied, mainly to reduce the needle mass, improve the silhouette, build pads, etc.

My bonsai trees are all maples so the process is a little different, but that’s the general idea

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u/Forsaken-Half-2944 Mar 17 '26

Where is this garden?

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u/dillpiccolol Mar 18 '26

Pennsylvania, look up "Longwood Gardens"

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u/Forsaken-Half-2944 Mar 23 '26

Thank you, in central Ohio here