When you search for bonsai in nurseries, you will often find a wide selection of trees and plants. Take your time at what time you shop for the bonsai trees. The best advice anyone can give you on shopping for bonsai, is to instruct you to research the background of the plants before consider purchase. Research will provide you insight that will guide you in the right direction in buying, training, nurturing, etc. For instance, you can purchase a 6-foot bonsai, taper the tree, and form a Jin tip or driftwood bonsai. Research will also protect you against the many sale clerks at nurseries who insist that you are illiterate in plant and tree growth. The sale clerks often strive to sell the plants and trees at top-dollar cost, and provide you brief information in the meantime.