Hi gang,
Anyone know of a shop/garden centre that has a large selection of bonsai pots? Jianguo flower market does not have a good selection. I went to Yinghe - famous for pottery, but nope.
Anyhoo, thanks for your help.
(Apologies: I accidentally deleted this post and have now reposted it.)
It’d be worth checking Shopee. Quite a bit cheaper than any of the flower markets for stuff like that, and at least some of the gardening supply sellers do free home delivery if you spend enough (not a lot — the one I’ve used was like NT$800).
Thanks for the tip.
I fear that I may be forced to shop online. I’m the kinda guy that likes to see, touch, compare.
Plus the online shopping experience in Mandarin doesn’t fill me with confidence.
It’s not so bad. The main parts of the Shopee app are in English, and you can get by with Google Translate for the stuff that isn’t.
I haven’t looked for bonsai pots specifically, but the seller I used before was this one: https://tw.shp.ee/K1KvQh4 (there are probably many others).
Thanks again. I’ll have a look.
Hey Andrew,
FYI: I checked your link but it did not turn up much. I then searched for bonsai pots, bonsai, - the results were very poor.
I then went to the native mandarin version and searched for 盆景盆 (bonsai pot).
Now there are tons of good results. And now I have to figure out how to use shopee in Mandarin (I know… google translate but - at least for me - it’s not as straightforward as you imply). 
Yeah, you definitely need to search in Chinese, that’s a given. You can do that in the English version too though.
The language setting doesn’t change the listings of course, just (parts of) the interface.
Most large garden supply shops have them. Each place is different so need to go in person and dust off the shelves. I know some good ones down south, but not too familiar with Taipei
If you feel like travelling, everyone in Taiwan should be mandated to visit Tienwei at least once. It’s nothing compared to it’s former glory, but it’s still lightyears better than anywhere else in the country for anything garden related
Maybe around the Taipei bonzai museum in Tienmu or get some leads from them.
《紫園 》梁悦美盆栽文物藝術館 Amy Liang Bonsai Museum
There are some suggested links in locations in the following thread
Also a large flower market in or past Jingmei but i can’t find it right now
I think you mean this one? It’s showing up as permanently closed now though:
It wasn’t that great anyway, IMO. I just went once, but it had little to offer compared with Jianguo while being a fair amount more expensive (at least for herbs, which is all I was looking for).
As a reference
Most herbs/flowers in Taiwan, unless niche
Retail prices
3" pots $35, 3/$100
6" pots $80-100
Fruit and more commercial things tend to be priced more on rarity and DNA. Fruit trees range for $20 to tens of thousands per tree.
Fancy downtown garden centers with very high rent will of course be a bit more due to realestate and target market. They tend to have less land so also tend to have fewer cheap bulky items like big breakable pots, bags of soil etc. Normally the best options are outside the city in the direction of wherever the greenhouses are built in each county. Best of both worlds, commercial scale as wrll as residential showroom for people with money. Every city has them, but they are often terrible at marketing hehe.