Try Canada Bonsai, they can ship to the USA
Thank you Mr. Valavanis
I'm sold out for March 2026, but I will be taking orders for March 2027 sometime over the upcoming summer. Annoucements to come via Newsletter:
https://www.canadabonsai.com/pages/newsletter
Canada Bonsai is way too expensive
Since 2018 I have sent several thousand to the USA (and even more Beni Chidori maples!), and my hope is that producers in the USA will begin to emerge and distribute at scale. I know at least a few people are planning it on the east coast and in California. But exactly as
@leatherback noted, Seigen does not propagate as efficiently as other cultivars like Kashima or Koto Hime. There are a few reasons for this, but one important reason is that Seigen parent plants simply don't send out tons of vigorous shoots from which we can take cuttings. This means that producing additional parent plants--not just cuttings for sale--scales in something more like a linear fashion, instead of exponentially. This is why even nurseries in the USA who have purchased 50 units from me are still struggling to produce several hundreds cuttings per year to sell. To give you a rough example, if you give me 1 parent plant of Kashima I can produce +2,000 cuttings per year for you within 3-4 years. With Seigen, we're talking 25-100 cuttings per year in the same time frame. (As you would imagine, sourcing additional Seigen parent plants is
impossible very very challenging and expensive in the best of scenarios).
There is a lot more to say here, but I wanted to give you a bit of the behind-the-scenes. This is why the number of nurseries in Japan producing Seigen cuttings for bonsai is a lot closer to 0 than it is to 10. The Seigen that we see at exhibitions are often +50 years old, frequently closer to +80 years old -- this rightfully makes us love them; but it also makes us pursue an 'outdated' cultivar from 50 years ago (for lack of a better term). Almost any production nursery you speak to in Japan will tell you that Seigen has been replaced with Deshojo, and from the prospective of efficiently creating beautiful strong bonsai, there is no room for debate: (shin) Deshojo is superior. (As a hobbyist and maple fan first, and a nursery second, I
still want a Seigen because there is something special about them, of course)
