I used to have one...
“I used to have one too... “, is the most commonly heard phrase, which you hear as a bonsai carer. Immediately followed by:... ' and it broke.”
When you ask the visitor what kind of bonsai it was about, you get an astonished look and answer: “I don't know, are there species?”
Further inquiring about where they bought the bonsai usually learns that they bought it in a supermarket store, on the market, or at best in a garden center.
The things they sell there for “bonsai” are mostly tropical trees that are produced in mass in Eastern Third World countries. These species grow, in their country of origin, as tropical “weeds”, and are sold here for a few euros. Before shipping, these plants are put in liquid clay, so they don't have to be poured on their long journey to the west.
Coming home with the new acquisition, it is placed in front of the window and occasionally poured. In winter, the radiator burns under the windowsill, and our “room bonsai” gets extremely dry hot air, where in the tropics it is usual a humidity of 95%. The clay dries out and becomes stone hard. Pouring turns out impossible because the water no longer seeps through to the roots... Tree-tree dead. Well, that's how we all started.
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