Poor guy! A poster is in real trouble when both Jim and I crab at him.

I'll even go a step further than Jim: Don't buy a tree at a nursery: buy a
tree at a GOOD, reputable nursery. Recently I visited a place that
specialized in indoor plants. Orchids, succulents, tropicals, lots of
good stuff. Then I saw they had a "bonsai" section: crappy little plants
in tiny pots for 10 times what they were worth. A woman asked me for
advice in picking something out for her son-in-law. I told her the bonsai
were crappy and overpriced (well, you know *me*), and all she had to do
was go to the tropical section, pick out a bougie [they had a great
selection of thick-trunked espaliers], then go to the pot section and pick
out a pot, and she'd have something much better than the twig they were
trying to sell her for $38. She gave me a sad look which said "I'm not
prepared to put that much effort into my son-in-law" and she bought the
twig bougie.

I'm not blaming her: I'm blaming the nursery for defaming the art of bonsai.

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