The Butchered Bonsai

Ok, I'm trying to get a little more creative and a little more responsible in my old(er) age and as such when I saw a Bonsai on sale for £4 ($8ish USD)I thought to myself 'ok that will take some looking after' thus creating some responsibility for myself.

So I purchased it, and took it home... My first task was to try and identify what genus the Bonsai was from. Through l33t g00g1e 5ki11z I decided it was a Chinese Elm.

I then tasked myself with what I needed to do to make sure this tree survives (I'm a plant killer I can't keep Cacti I'm that bad!) as it is a sad little Bonsai, it hadn't been well grown in the farm, to maintain the size the main trunk had been chopped about 2 inches above the soil which any true Bonsai enthusiast would see as mistreatment of the tr4ee (tbh I do too but I didn't have 12 years to grow my own at this size for the same price).

Looking into the first steps of getting a Bonsai home, the general consensus was to re-pot water and put in a generally shady locale. Well that was achievable so I got some Bonsai compost (I also picked up some snips and some Bonsai nutrients) and set about re-potting the tree.


So here it is after repotting :D