House of Bonsai

What it is

House of Bonsai is a retail-only bonsai specialty nursery on a 5.3-acre property in Lakewood, California. The official home page calls it Southern California’s largest bonsai nursery, growing bonsai for the public since 1990, family owned and operated. About Us: started by Victoria Lee in 1990 as a shop-in-shop inside a Downtown Los Angeles florist; moved to a South Gate outdoor nursery in 1995; relocated to the current Palo Verde Avenue lot in 2001 and shifted to an exclusive bonsai focus. The nursery sells bonsai and pre-bonsai trees, ceramic pots, soil, fertilizer, tools, wire, and related merchandise through its official BigCommerce shop (houseofbonsai.com), plus Japanese garden supplies (granite stone lanterns, water basins, stone bridges). In-store services include beginner/intermediate Saturday classes in the Main Greenhouse, bonsai styling (“Bonsai Salon”), boarding, and sick-tree diagnosis. Retail only since 2015 (no wholesale). It is not a membership club and not a museum class series.

Who it’s for

Walk-in and online shoppers in the USA who want finished bonsai, pre-bonsai stock, pots, soil mixes, fertilizers, tools, and gift-ready trees from a first-party specialty nursery; visitors who want to walk the Lakewood acreage and shop the Main Greenhouse; and walk-in students for optional 1st- and 3rd-Saturday hands-on classes. Home page: primarily sells to customers based in the USA; open to the public for walk-in customers. This listing treats House of Bonsai as a Nurseries entry (trees/pots/tools with shop prices) — the Saturday class is an in-store service of the nursery, not a separate Learning listing.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party specialty nursery with a printed Lakewood street address, published weekday/Saturday hours, an official online shop with on-page dollar prices for trees, pots, soil, fertilizer, and tools, and a first-party class schedule page — not a scraped directory card and not an Amazon storefront.

• Address / hours (home, Directions and Store Hours — checked 2026-09-16): 5214 Palo Verde Ave, Lakewood, CA 90713; phone 562-804-6888. Open Monday–Saturday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PST; closed Sundays and some major holidays (New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day listed; call to confirm other holidays). Enter via the front gate across from Candleverde Park on Palo Verde Ave. Free parking at the front next to the Stone Lantern wire-fenced area (Plan Your Visit).
• About / scale (About Us / home — checked today): public nursery since 1990; current 5.3-acre Lakewood site since 2001; retail only since 2015.
• Official shop sample prices (home featured / popular / new products — checked 2026-09-16): Taiwanese Tiger Bark Ficus Gift Ready Bonsai Tree (Medium) $89.00; Cork Bark Hokkaido Dwarf Chinese Elm pre-bonsai 4” pot $30.00; same cultivar 5” pot $59.00; Japanese Black Pine ‘Mikawa’ pre-bonsai 1 gallon $69.00; Dwarf Japanese Satsuki Azalea ‘Kazan’ pre-bonsai 4” $30.00; Japanese Satsuki Hybrid Azalea ‘Hakata Jiro’ and Belgian Indica Hybrid ‘Madonna’ Azalea pre-bonsai 1 gallon $27.00 each; Procumbens Nana Juniper pre-bonsai Small Cloud Style 4” $25.00; Procumbens Nana Juniper gift sets $91.00 / $116.00; Chinese high-fired glazed cascade ceramic pots $49.00 (5”) / $65.00 (7”); Pure Hard Akadama Japanese Clay Ball Soil Small (3–4 mm) 18 lbs / 13 L $42.00; Premium Mixed Bonsai Soil Blend Fine 22 lbs $42.00; Black Lava Rock (Scoria) Small 14 lbs / 8 L $19.00 (out of stock at check); Biogold Original Organic Bonsai Fertilizer 900 g $22.00 / 5 kg $99.00; Tamahi Japanese Organic Bonsai Fertilizer 7 kg $70.00; Liquid Lime Sulfur 29% Concentrate 16 oz $16.00; Root-powder stimulator 2 oz $8.65; Root-Gel hormone 2 oz $16.50; Japanese pine-needle bonsai tweezer 210 mm $39.00; stainless bonsai tweezers 210 mm $12.00; folding / curved / keyhole saws from about $19.95–$42.95; Aglis Japanese grafting tape roll $25.00; Amcor Parafilm grafting tape 6-roll box $54.00.
• Optional in-store class (Bonsai Class page — checked today; nursery service, not this directory’s Learning category): beginners & intermediates every 1st and 3rd Saturday, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Main Greenhouse; head teacher Victoria Lee; $20.00 walk-in per session or $150.00 for 10 non-consecutive pre-paid sessions (credits do not expire); 2026 dates printed through Dec (e.g. Sep 5 & 19, Oct 3 & 17, Nov 7 & 21, Dec 5 & 12); walk-ins check in at the sales desk; bring own tree(s) and at least sharp fine-tipped scissors; store opens 8:00 a.m. for supply shopping before class.

Hours, stock, lead times, and prices above are what the official pages showed on the check date. They can change. Use the live product or hours page before treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

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

• About Us: https://houseofbonsai.com/about-us/
• Plan Your Visit: https://houseofbonsai.com/plan-your-visit/
• Directions and Store Hours: https://houseofbonsai.com/directions-and-store-hours/
• Bonsai Class (in-store nursery service): https://houseofbonsai.com/bonsai-class/
• Bonsai Salon: https://houseofbonsai.com/bonsai-salon/
• Gift Ready Bonsai: https://houseofbonsai.com/categories/trees/gift-ready-bonsai.html

Location

Primary retail nursery address: 5214 Palo Verde Ave, Lakewood, CA 90713. Phone 562-804-6888. Hours checked 2026-09-16: Monday–Saturday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PST; closed Sunday and listed major holidays.

This is a public walk-in retail nursery / will-call and online shop address. Do not treat it as a membership club meeting hall or as Bonsai Plaza’s Learning category (Learning is reserved for curriculum/schedule-first class pages such as museum series).

Notes

• Category is Nurseries. First-party specialty nursery selling trees, pots, soil, fertilizer, tools, and related merchandise with printed shop prices, plus optional Saturday greenhouse classes as an in-store service. Not a club. Not listed under Learning.
• Hours of record (2026-09-16): Mon–Sat 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PST; closed Sunday.
• Shop dollar samples above are transcribed from the official home page product cards on the check date; confirm live SKU, stock, and cart path before ordering.
• Pics optional for this Wave 1 card; no listing image saved beside this file. Default nursery card art is used.
• Not affiliated with Bonsai Plaza.
• No Bonsai Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: Where is the nursery, and what are the hours? A: 5214 Palo Verde Ave, Lakewood, CA 90713. Official Directions and Store Hours / home (checked 2026-09-16): Monday–Saturday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PST; closed Sunday and some major holidays (New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas listed). Call 562-804-6888 to confirm holiday openings. Enter at the front gate across from Candleverde Park; free front parking.

Q: What shop prices were printed on the home page today? A: Samples checked 2026-09-16 include gift-ready ficus Medium $89.00; Hokkaido elm pre-bonsai $30.00–$59.00; Mikawa black pine 1 gal $69.00; azalea pre-bonsai $27.00–$30.00; cascade ceramic pots $49.00–$65.00; akadama 18 lbs $42.00; Biogold 900 g $22.00 / 5 kg $99.00; lime sulfur pint $16.00; tweezers $12.00–$39.00. Confirm the live SKU; prices and stock change.

Q: Do Saturday classes make this a Learning listing? A: No. Bonsai Plaza category lock: a nursery’s optional Saturday class does not move the card into Learning. Learning needs a curriculum/schedule-first page as the primary identity (see Morikami — The Art of Bonsai). House of Bonsai remains Nurseries; class details on the official Bonsai Class page are cited only as an in-store nursery service ($20 walk-in / $150 for 10 sessions; 1st & 3rd Saturdays 9 a.m.–noon).