This is Rod, my second surviving bonsai tree. I bought it yesterday on impulse when I went into the Bonsai Shop to buy some soil. The soil was in order to repot my Serissa Foetida and Orange saplings which were starting to outgrow their existing pots.
As usual though, it wasn't possible for me to enter the shop without checking out all of the trees on display. Most of the indoor trees on sale were either ficus or serissas and since I already have a healthy ficus bonsai tree I wasn't too interested. In any case I thought my own ficus, which I bought from the same shop last year, was a better specimen than the ones on display yesterday.
I'm willing to admit though that that may be purely through the eyes of love. One ficus might look much the same as another to someone else but I'd recognise my one anywhere!
I wasn't interested in buying a serissa no matter how good they looked because I'd already bought one of those and I know how fussy they are to keep. A serissa is not a good tree for a beginner. Mine died slowly over several months. Luckily I took a cutting from it before it died because that cutting is all I now have of the €50 tree that I bought!
The one tree that caught my eye was this Pepper Tree (Zanthoxylum Piperitum). I haven't been able to find out much information about the tree so far. None of my bonsai books mention pepper trees and I haven't been able to find much on the web either. Even the shop assistant, who claims to have 300 bonsai in his home country, didn't know anything about it.
Hopefully I'll do better with it than the Serissa!
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