get a bonsai tree

I look at genuine bonsai trees in a catalog sometimes, but every time I do, I feel like I am betraying my fake bonsai, which is an olive sprig with leaves too big to really be called a bonsai. Also, the ones in the book are expensive. Ollie only cost me twenty bucks, and I’ve had him for close to seven years now.

If I’ve had him so long, I wonder if that means I’m ready to care for a real bonsai, or that I should wait and be happy with what I have. Or is Ollie a real bonsai? I looked up on a sight, and it said that the rules for a bonsai to be called real are as follows:

• Natural appearance: It has to resemble a real tree; the hand of the artist should not be perceived in the specimen.

• Beauty: There is no way to gauge beauty. For some artists, there is great beauty in a tree that harmoniously breaks the rules. For others, the supreme beauty is to find a tree that precisely follows those rules. All in all, the tree should be beautiful to the eye that sees it.

• Maturity: The specimen should simulate age. The challenge, then, is to recreate maturity in the tree. Roots, trunk, branches: all the arrangement should look like it were there for decades.

But wait! What if the bonsai believes really hard that it is real? Surely that counts for something.

That you water it plenty. They are pretty cool looking though.

i’ve just decided 2 buy d plastic bonsai 4 a couple of reasons.
First of all – this Bonsai needs to be taken care of , so may be it would be better in someone else hands :/
Second – i want to plant a tree, not to own a tree at my small 2nd floor apartment, right?!
i’ll be fine with my fake bonsai C=

...it won’t be happening for a while. Maybe I’ll add it back to my list later, but for now I’d rather have few goals to concentrate and focus on.

Here is a picture of my bonsai tree, which I got from mwbonsai.com. I named him Michi, which means “path” in Japanese.

Bonsai plants can be expensive so, I just bought a
dwarf Japanese garden juniper, a Japanese holly, and a Greek myrtle. I also bought the book “Ortho’s All About Bonsai”
http://www.amazon.com/Orthos-All-About-Bonsai-Gardening/dp/0897214986/ref=sr_1_53?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199213203&sr=1-53
There are several helpful bonsai books out there though.
If you buy a plant to bonsai, be very patient and give it time; don’t cut off too much at once. Also, I found a baby pine tree that’s only a few inches high out in my yard. I dug it up and planted it in a little tea cup and it’s adorable!

I ordered my bonsai. It should be here in a week.

My bonsai is still thriving, although I can’t find any bonsai food in the plant stores, so I’ll have to order some on line. I’m taking this off my list of goals…

I do have one, but I’m not going to remove this goal until it lives a healthy life for a little longer. If I kill it, I don’t deserve to say I had a bonsai.

It’s wonderful! I saw that you can buy them online, but I wanted to choose my own. I wouldn’t order a pet online, so why something as personal as a bonsai. I hope I don’t kill it.