I saw a bonsai catalog before Christmas and fell in love with the idea of having a bonsai tree next to my tea table. I enjoyed when I had flowers at my tea table (until they died). I also had some bulbs that bloomed, which looked amazing until they died. I am pretty bad with plants, despite being enthusiastic about owning many of them. I seem to do well with succulents (especially when I lived in SoCal), but I am good at murdering all herbs.
Christmas came, and I got a Fukien Tea bonsai! TEA! So cool! It was shipped to me and arrived upside down in a box.
Sadly, Fukien Tea had a rough patch, as I started overwatering it so all the leaves turned yellow. In response, I started underwatering it, so it lost a bunch of leaves and looked really bad. I finally got the hang of the routine after almost 2 months! Now it has all this crazy growth, but probably looks bad still, but it’s not dead yet!
This Fukien Tea Bonsai was marketed as an “easy” indoor plant, but I already find it more spazy than any other houseplant I’ve owned so far. Hopefully one day it can become a permanent fixture with my tea table.
