Bonsai -- Banzai!

Hello Dears,

So I rescued a half- dead, discounted Japanese holly tree a few weeks back, and through some suggestion form my friend Brandulfr, I decided to turn it into a little bonsai tree. We had to cut it back a bit, lots of dead leaves and branches to prune, but about a month later, it came back like a champ!

It's hard to see, but the blossoms have a tint of pink!

I had a bonsai plant when I was 8 or 9 but, lets just say, I had not yet aquired the wisdom to know when to bring pants inside in the dead of winter, let alone care for a tiny, fragile tree. But when I found this little beauty clinging to life, I figured "why not?" and decided to give it another try,

Brandulfr is saving a special pot to transfer it into as he is an avid bonsai enthusiast himself and will be freeing up a really nice, Japanese pot for me to put it in. For now, though, it seems to be flourishing in the plastic pot it came in.

I've taken to decorating my balcony with some foliage as of late, and I've managed to put a few interesting plants up there. I currently have: A fig tree that actually produces yummy figs! (once you get past how creepy they are, they're rather tasty!) a really soft and fluffy wormwood plant, a show cypris, and another Inkberry holly that isn't doing so well right now.


I made the newbie mistake of putting that holly in a pot without a drain at the bottom. We've since poked holes in the bottom of it and have been watering it a bit less to keep the roots from rotting, so hopefully it will pull through.


I'm also having fun in the fine art of picture-bana, in so much as I have a lot of photos for this entry but not a whole lot to say about it, so I suppose I'll shut up now and let you enjoy the zen plants and super zen pup!

- Ori