nurture a bonsai tree

wow its been a long time since i was on about geoff. wheni get home he is going to need some serious attention! will need repotting cutting shaping etc etc. might be a missions. i wonder then i will know if i have indeed nurtured a bonsai?

i have decided that the little lovely bonsai tree shall be named geoff! my bf seems to disagree, but i think that he misses the point of my naming. whilst it is very much a bonsai tree in that it is a potted tree, he is so western! geoff does not take on the traditional form – he is more lanky that condensed with a thick trunk. while we are traning him, its only to get somefun shaped branches, nothing on a thick trunk thing. he seems to get a bit more out there every day. we have added some moss to his pot, traditionl yes, but gathered from a gutter, not so much. boredom sometimes gets the better of me. take a few days ago for instance. we live only a block from a vinnies store so i head over there quite a bit, and happend across a fantastic bag of embroidery thread. seeing it as a bargain at a measly $1 i had to have it. not sure what to do with it until i saw beloved geoff. he is now sporting multi coloured wrappings around all of his branches and trunk. looks lovely i reckon. and far from traditional!

is still going strong! tho i am still not sure about that name..will think on it a bit.

i love my boonsai. he is just a little shrub thing that i am convincing to look like a bonsai. am yet to name him. my bf wokrs in a japenese restaruant and is always coming home with japnaese suggesstions for me as they would be appropriate. but i wuite like to call him geoff. not traditional but wither is the shrub!