Brussel's Bonsai Live Hawaiian Umbrella Bonsai Tree - Small, 3 Year, 4 to 7 Inches Tall - Indoor Bonsai Tree with Ceramic Bonsai Pot

This plant is absolutely beautiful. Very well packaged and exactly as described. I’ve ordered a number of plants from Amazon and this was hands down the best.

Words cannot explain our unbelief when we finally got this tree unpackaged. It is 21 inches tall from the base and 21 inches wide.and very dense with branches and leaves. It has a very attractive shape and appears very healthy. It was not missing a leaf and nothing was broken. It was extremely well packaged to protect it. You thought "Snickers" was packed with peanuts. Have a garbage bag ready to hold all the peanuts and be very careful unpackaging it. My son was extremely happy with his birthday gift and we love the look of the tree in front of our picture window. it arrived earlier than promised. The expected delivery date was the 15th and it arrived on the 12th. For information I'll tell you what else you will need. You will need a humidity drip tray to fit the planter. The top of the planter is 13 by 10 inches wide but the base is 10 by 7 inches wide. You will also need slow release organic fertilizer pellets. The plant needs to be watered every two or three days and sprayed from the top every so often to remove dust from the leaves and trunk. A sprinkling watering can or spray container should do. In short I highly recommend this tree and it was cheaper on amazon than from Brussels Bonsai. They have some of the most amazing bonsai trees you will see on their site. Enjoy this tree! Also don't forget to watch Brussel's Bonsai's video on watering and care of Bonsai trees. There is a lot to learn about caring for Bonsais. It is not the same as caring for ordinary house plants. Also the care of each variety is different. Do yourself and your Bonsai a favor and purchase a book that has care for different types of Bonsais. The one we got here on Amazon is, The Bonsai Survival Manual. Although it doesn't have the care of this specific variety it lists clubs and other ways to obtain care info. Also a call to Brussel's was worth it, they told us to water every other day and fertilize every two weeks, but you have to water as indicated in the video. Good Luck!

The soil is comes with will run out of nutrients quickly, leading me to believe it is old soil. I didn't realize this until it started losing leaves after a month, and completely wilted at month 2. I purchased the small Umbrella with the ceramic pot. The pot is very nice, and the tree was in great shape and even had numerous new buds and growth in the first month.It is at the point of being the maximum size for the pot, and I was not prepared for the fertilizer needs or repotting to a larger container...or trimming the roots and adding fresh soil.Most of the complaints I'm reading are probably the same issue, but blame it on the plant and not the nature of the bonsai. I've always used fresh soil before, and never had a plant old enough to need constant fertilizer. I just assumed the soil would be fresher than it was.So with that caveat in mind, you will be successful. I had it in partial light all day and it was fine for a month. I am repotting it now and have it under grow lights to see if I can recover it. The trunk still has life, and there are still some viable roots... *fingers crossed*

I attempted to replace my granddaughter Bonzi tree (middle) which I had given to her as a gift. I had overwatered it and it died of root rot. It was also a spruce which do not do well indoors. I purchased the one on the left, which was much larger, but within the 8-10” range when measured from the dirt up. I was so pleased with it health, if not it’s size, that I order the one on the right, which was 4-5”above the 8-10” that I ordered. Though health, it was higher and did not meet the description of the tree it claimed to be. The foliage began at the bottom, not the top, and the other two trees, if that was the intent, appeared to branch out from the same tree. We’re it intended to be three separate trees, they would be standing side by side and again, the foliage would be at the top of the tree, not the bottom. I email the company for a refund or exchange. They advertise a full refund for any reason within the first 30 days, but they refused to refund or replace it, stating only that it was just healthier and I should be pleased. I was not and called Amazon, explained the issue and they refunded me for both trees immediately. Since then, the tree on the left lost all of it leaves because the top had been sniped off, likely because it too exceeded the ten inches, and likely died of shock, assuming it is a tree at all. Now they are selling the ‘super health’ model (right) for 2-3 times the price of the one I purchased. Had these trees been planted and been growing for as long as they claimed, it might have been taller, with bends in the tree (left) but it would not be a tall “pre bonzi” tree, which means you get to wire it up yourself and over time, it will form the twists and turns, forcing it to slow it’s grow considerably. This did not happen for the one on the right, and I suspect the left might have been a naturally occurring bend. I gave them the benefit of doubt until I saw the snipped tree. Now 2 prior customers described similar events but I bet on the law of averages and assumed it was an anomaly. It was not. There should be a class action suit brought against them. We’re I not 70, I just might have devoted myself to that, but there more important things in life and I lack the time to deal with it, though I hope Amazon acts on it as it was a “Amazon Recommendation” which has seldom failed me. I assume it is because it is also what I appeared to want. But not always, so there’s that. I look to consistency of bad reviews and the stars given to the best bang for the buck, or it’s equivalent. I have been with Amazon almost from it’s beginning in order, initially to deal with not delivered USPS packages, and stayed because the pricing is usually as good if not better, as I compare prices regularly and I have stayed because of the service, and reliability of delivery, though I am guessing that Amazon has run amuck of political issues itself. (Sigh). What isn’t these days. We have bigger fish to fry.

The box was smashed in on the side (so I took a picture before opening). But the packing was so well done the plant was intact. They seem to have gone away from foam peanuts, if they used them in the past. They just used intelligent cardboard folding with cellophane and tape restraint. The plant was bigger than I expected, and looks very healthy. I wanted to transplant into a pot I 3D printed but this plant is already a bit large for my pot. I suppose I could trim it down and hope I don't kill it in the process. Only major complaint is the instructions were wet and fused together, so no way to read them. They need to put the instructions in a ziplock. I may need to order seeds and try to start a bonsai myself #thehorror