As well as meetings, our club conducts bus trips to bonsai nurseries and shows, collecting trips, shows in local malls, swap and shops and socials. The Kelowna Bonsai Club invites people interested in bonsai to attend our meetings. Growing Bonsai Bonsai are not special plants. Most of them are trees and shrubs readily available in the wild or at local nurseries. Others may be obtained from bonsai nurseries in the Lower Mainland.
Many people assume that bonsai are indoor plants.
However, most bonsai are outdoor plants, such as juniper, cypress, pine, maple, pyracantha, and cotoneaster. When these outdoor plants are made into bonsai, they should stay outdoors, even in the winter. They may die if they are kept indoors. Some tropical plants, such as various figs, can also be made into bonsai. These are indoor plants, and cannot stay outside during the winter.