Bonsai

I had a Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) in my yard which i shaped to look like a Bonsai - it looked pretty cool for a while but I eventually removed it in favor of Lilacs.


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I've heard the theory that it is cruelty to plants. I personally wouldn't be that concerned about that though...call me a cold hearted bitch.

 

I doubt it, how can it be cruel? They're plants..

I've had a few, plan to have a little bonsai garden one day in my new place. I was just never good at shaping them.

From memory, though most believe it's a Japanese trait, the Chinese started the bonsai growing and all they did was limit it's water and sunlight. It's not like the plant itself is dying. I can't see it as cruel. Plants don't have feelings I'm sorry.

 

I love plants more than I love anything else but I don't feel like it is cruelty... but what do I know?

 

Plant cruelty. I've heard it all now. :rofl:

 

Someone stop this bastard! That's gotta hurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ZzPPgl530"]Crazy plant screams when you pull on its leaves - YouTube

 

...you have to be kidding. It's a plant.

 

i heard somewhere that bonsai fertilizer gets u lifted .. like sky high bro !!

 

Bonsai get more attention than most other house plants... Cruelty? Maybe...

 

Cruelty is a cultivated thought. It could use less attention.

Banzai !!!

 

How do we know that ?

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But I don't think the truth of the matter has really been fully established.

 

i must be tired, i thought this was a thread about bonkai...

how do you know bonsai trees aren't into sadomasochism?

 

I'm no green thumb.. or a human biology professor..
But..
Wouldn't a plant need like a brain to be able to like.. think and feel emotions?
Does a plant tell you "no I don't want to be stepped on?"
Maybe they like being trodden on?

 

Very fitting here since most of my inside plants went kamikaze on themselves :mickey:

 

Banzai means ten thousand years.

 

And was yelled by those kamikaze pilots.

 

Given the longevity of Bonsais and the care given to them, I would say these seniors have hit the mother load.

 

Reckless fuckers never cultivated their cruelty but let it fly. Cultivate the tree for ten thousand years instead.