4 Bonsai & a Noob: The Pix

[MTKid]

Hi y'all, I rescue adopted 4 Bonsai despite being an uber Bonsai noob!

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[rainbowgardener]

Not sure I'd call them bonsai yet, but look like really nice healthy little trees, with pre-bonsai potential. Wonderful of you to rescue/ adopt them, hope you have a great time with them!

[lance]

Where did you get them? The first 2 look like juniper trees.Home depot and lowe's sell them as indoor trees, but they really aren't. I don't know what the other 2 are, I don't know much about tropical plants.
as soon as the danger of frost has passed the junipers need to go outside, and they need to stay there in order to survive. If they aren't juniper trees, just disregard everything I just wrote

[manIK]

The third one is a Sago palm (Cycas revoluta). I wouldn't call it a Bonsai since you can't train it [not that that is the sole definition of Bonsai] or really do anything with it except pot it and let it grow and trim it.

They are sold as Bonsai at Home Depot / Lowes / Etc. It's part of the cycad fam like other confiers. It's a very pointy/pierce'ee/thorny and just downright dangerous.

Very toxic to humans and animals so if you have a cat, keep it away and clean up any dropped leaves. Always wash your hands after handling it.

I had one for a few months but I found it far to ugly and since I have a cat I dumped it.