Bonsaify

What it is

Bonsaify is a first-party specialty bonsai nursery and online shop rooted in Northern California / the San Francisco Bay Area. Official About: the team grows and styles its own bonsai locally (not mass-imported finished trees as the primary model), partners with U.S. potters for ceramics, and donates 1% of sales to One Tree Planted. Chief Bonsai Artist Eric Schrader (About: 25+ years training trees from raw material to refined bonsai; Japanese-tradition training) and co-founder Dory Schrader run the brand. The official Shopify shop sells starter and finished bonsai trees, ceramics, tools, wire, fertilizer, gift bundles, books, and related goods with on-page dollar prices, plus optional in-person Bay Area brewery/venue classes and e-courses as nursery programming. It is not a membership club and not a museum class series.

Who it’s for

USA shoppers (online via bonsaify.com; live plants ship in the U.S. per FAQ) who want first-party mini / shohin-scale bonsai, starters, pots, tools, and supplies with printed SKU prices; beginners through intermediate growers shopping species such as olive, natal plum, lavender star flower, dwarf jade, and Japanese black pine; and Bay Area visitors watching the Live Events class calendar. Optional brewery workshops and e-courses do not move this card into Learning.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party specialty nursery with a printed San Francisco street address on the Privacy Policy, an official Shopify catalog with on-page dollar prices for trees / pots / tools, and About / FAQ context — not a scraped directory card and not an Amazon storefront. (Held from Tue MANIFEST as known-good alternate; preferred this ship over Bonsai West, which still lacks a citeable public tree-price catalog.)

• Address / grower model (Privacy Policy + FAQ + About — checked 2026-09-23): contact address Bonsaify, 225 Velasco Ave, San Francisco CA 94134, United States; email [email protected]. FAQ: trees grown almost entirely at Bonsaify facilities in Northern California; live plants do not ship outside the U.S.; some trees may ship to Canada on inquiry. Shopify meta: city San Francisco, province California.
• About / team (About — checked today): Eric Schrader, Chief Bonsai Artist; Dory Schrader, co-founder; local growing; 1% of sales to One Tree Planted; partner ceramics.
• Official shop sample tree prices (collections / products.json — checked 2026-09-23): Japanese Black Pine bonsai cards $69.00; Dwarf Jade / Natal Plum / Lavender Star Flower samples $95.00; European Crabapple $125.00; Lavender Star Flower higher cards $125.00–$145.00; Olive bonsai samples $145.00 / $175.00 / $185.00 / $225.00; Japanese Cedar / Canyon Live Oak / Cork Oak / Chinese Corkbark Elm starters $29.00; American Liquidambar gallon starter $35.00; Basic Outdoor Bonsai Gift Bundle $154.00; Dwarf Jade / Ficus gift bundles $145.00.
• Official shop sample pot / tool / supply prices (collections / products.json — checked today): Bonsaify Mini Deep Water Blue / Mini Yellow Salt pots $45.00; Espresso / Lavender Blush pots $55.00; Blue Anemone / Espresso pots $65.00; Amber / Espresso pots $75.00; Arakawa Stony Blue 5″ oval $46.00; Arakawa Shino-Ash Small Mokko Round $195.00; Aluminum Grower’s Wire 400g $19.00; ARS Trimming Scissors $22.50; Basic Bonsai Scissors $54.00; Bonsai Branch Cutters $79.00; Wire Cutters $77.00; Bio-Gold fertilizer $33.00; Bonsai Wound Sealant $18.00; Bonsai Tool Bag $15.00.

Hours for any walk-up pickup (if offered), stock, shipping rules, and prices above are what the official pages showed on the check date. They can change. Use the live product card before treating any figure as fixed. Optional Live Events class tickets (often $95–$100) and e-courses are nursery programming, not this directory’s Learning category.

Official URL

Official nursery / shop site: https://www.bonsaify.com/

• About: https://www.bonsaify.com/pages/about
• FAQ: https://www.bonsaify.com/pages/faq
• Bonsai trees collection: https://www.bonsaify.com/collections/bonsai-trees
• Tools collection: https://www.bonsaify.com/collections/tools
• Privacy Policy (printed street address): https://www.bonsaify.com/policies/privacy-policy

Location

Printed contact address: 225 Velasco Ave, San Francisco CA 94134. Growing facilities described as Northern California (FAQ). Confirm any appointment / pickup / class venue notes on the live product or class page before traveling — this is primarily an online retail nursery / will-call and ship identity, not a membership club meeting hall and not a museum tuition desk.

Notes

• Category is Nurseries. First-party specialty nursery selling trees, pots, tools, and supplies with printed shop prices, plus optional brewery workshops and e-courses as in-house programming. Not a club. Not listed under Learning.
• Street address, SKU dollar samples, and Northern California grower claims are transcribed from official pages checked on 2026-09-23 and may change.
• Pics optional for this Wednesday card; no listing image saved beside this file (favicon-only asset was too thin to keep).
• Not affiliated with Bonsai Plaza.
• No Bonsai Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: Where is Bonsaify, and do they ship live trees?
A: Privacy Policy (checked 2026-09-23) prints Bonsaify, 225 Velasco Ave, San Francisco CA 94134. FAQ: live plants ship within the U.S.; Canada only for some trees on inquiry; no live-plant shipping to Europe/Asia/etc. Confirm the live cart shipping widget.

Q: What shop prices were printed on official pages today?
A: Samples checked 2026-09-23 include Japanese Black Pine $69.00; many finished tropicals/deciduous from about $95.00–$225.00; starters from $29.00; pots about $45.00–$195.00; tools/wire/fertilizer from about $14.00–$79.00. Confirm the live SKU; prices and stock change.

Q: Do brewery classes or e-courses make this a Learning listing?
A: No. Bonsai Plaza category lock: a nursery’s ticketed brewery workshops or online e-courses do not move the card into Learning. Learning needs a curriculum/schedule-first page as the primary identity (see Descanso Gardens Rooted Bonsai Workshops or Gresham Japanese Garden Art of Bonsai). Bonsaify remains Nurseries.