If there were no word in the english language for bonsai.

[Woody Carverton]

Let's play make believe !

Pretend there were no word in the English language for bonsai. No word that means tiny tree in a pot, like the hundreds of years of bonsai history did not exist and someone just started putting trees in tiny pots today and had to come up with a name to call them. Now come up with your best make believe word to call these strange little trees we keep in pots.

My make believe word is Scimber (Sk-imber) a word melt of scant and timber.

Ready, GO!!!

 

[ColinFraser]

Hortisculpture!

 

[Woody Carverton]

Hortisculpture!

Love It!!!!!

 

[fredman]

Ha Ha good topic. The meaning from Japanese sums it up well.... "tree in pot/container". My guess is we would've called it pretty much close to that to. Maybe something like Potted trees or Container trees. Maybe Dwarf trees

 

[barrosinc]

potree

 

[Solange]

No need to pretend, we don't have a word in the English language for bonsai! I can't come up with anything now, I do like Colin's response though. Will give it some more thought

 

[Solange]

Vesselscaping?

 

[fredman]

potree

I thought of the name to, but it would be confused to much with pottery...

 

[MACH5]

"Treeplantedinashallowpotandartisticallyshapedtoresembleatreeinnature"

But I fear it may be misspelled.

 

[Solange]

@MACH5 thats why we will use the simple acronym - Tpiaspaastratin

 

[Vin]

Arboricultural Torturist

 

[AZbonsai]

Dwarfington

 

[LanceMac10]

Kindling.....

 

[Random User]

If there was no word bonsai, mine would still be called a "stick in a pot".

 

[MobiusKB]

How about "POTiary", Topiary in a pot.

 

[barrosinc]

Miyagitrees

 

[Frozen_thunderbolt]

Minitreeised

 

[defra]

keep em small trees

 

[BunjaeKorea]

How about...
Tiny pot tree of aesthetic importance and of artistic expression with feeling of orientalism in form and structure.....

 

[just.wing.it]

I feel like, in today's world, if there was no history behind bonsai, people would frown on the idea....mean to the trees....
Chinese foot binding comes to mind....now I know better than to honestly make that comparison, but people do still.