What....you don't talk to plants too?

As is well documented I have a passion for all things 'natural history' ....a specific, though only in a very small way, is bonsai trees. many moons ago it concerned me a little that those twisted branches and trunks, forced by wire, would be kinda 'painful' for the tree but I decided that thought was a little excessive and given that they seem to grow well regardless, they must be happy with their lot in life!

It seems though that I never get a perfect specimen, over the years I have 'rescued' three or four from certain death, that I have come by via strange routes or by others handing them on out of frustration. The last had it's trunk snapped almost in two, I bound it and cared for it until it healed and it now resides with a friend.

Most recently I 'came by' a larger specimen when I noticed it leafless and lifeless in a store and offered the owner a minimal amount to remove it from his abuse worry. The poor thing had survived maybe 20 or more years to attain it's size and in the space of a few days of neglect was taking it's last bonsai breaths!

Home it went with me and after just four weeks TLC, the appropriate care and a stern talking too ......what, you don't talk to plants too? I give you, full of health and happiness again, one little tree! :o)


Alive and kicking!