Bonsai- Tree - torture

[NavyDiver]

My son brought a bonsai for my wife last year. Almost made a whole year!


Spare bonsai pot had me grabbing a cheap small fig. 75% removed from the top and 25% from the roots plus a little thinning


Youtube was my friend for the how to guide


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the top trim made into six cuttings as a back up in-case I stuffed it

My mum thinks bonsai are crimes against trees Tree - torture. My usual non colour specified thumb is not from my mum who has a colour specified Green thumb

Lemon Thyme ground cover I put in a year ago is doing very well so perhaps the cracks have appeared in my non colour specified Thumb


Hypnotically correct garden post - No politics in the garden thread

[Jeffoir]

Heh James,
nice work with the bonsai.
As viticulture is to a grape vine, think of your bonsai project being as Ficus-(fig) Culture.
It is just another way of growing the Ficus.
Viticulture is a noble art - Ficus-Culture is also one.
best wishes with the project.
jeff