18 Of The Most Beautiful Bonsai Trees Ever

Bonsai trees are awesome. Just ask Mr Miyagi. They look beautiful, they fit in your house, they encourage patience and dedication, they relieve stress, and they help to purify the air. What's not to like?

This 390 Year-old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima: Now living in Washington, D.C., this bonsai tree outlasted the atomic blast. For 25 years, one of those trees sat near the entrance of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the United States National Arboretum in Washington D.C., its impressive life story largely unknown. When Yamaki donated the now 390-year-old white pine bonsai tree to be part of a 53 bonsais gifted by the Nippon Bosnai Association to the United States for its bicentennial celebration in 1976, all that was really known was the tree's donor. Its secret would remain hidden until 2001, when two of Yamaki's grandsons made an unannounced visit to the Arboretum in search of the tree they had heard about their entire lives.