Japanese maple bonsai trees like morning sun and afternoon shade, so they do best on the east side of a house. “You want them to get sun, but not during the heat of the day, the real intense sun ...

“If you use a white oak, which has the potential to get a hundred feet high, it takes a lot more work to manage than it does a bonsai tree that, in its natural state, would only get 20 feet tall ...