Chinese Elm Bonsai Tree - You Choose (9yr Chinese Elm)

Beautiful bonsai tree, healthy and larger than expected. The packaging was excellent, very robust. Protected the tree, pot and dish perfectly. Thank you.

It's beautiful I feel like I've we've welcomed a new baby into the house. 10/10

I bought this as a gift for my brother and he loves it. Months later and it's still going strong. He trims it and feeds it. It did lose some leaves in the transition period of adjusting to his house but it is now happy and healthy and prodcing new growth

Lovely tree. Very well packed. Initially leaves were falling after the first couple of day till it settled and I fed it bonsai food. Now it is flourishing and growing loads of new shoots and needing to be trimmed. Very impressed.

Lovely bonsai, arrived very quickly and packaged carefully. Very pleased

Repotted and added soil . Bosnia looks good and healthy.

Beautiful tree. Arrived a day early. Packed so well not a single leaf was damaged and arrived in perfect condition.lovely pot and tray

The elm itself is good material: a genuine Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia) with a nice thick trunk, real movement, and healthy, dense foliage. It travelled well and was unstressed on arrival, and as a species it’s tough and forgiving. On the tree quality alone, I’m pleased with it. However, buyers should know how it arrives, because the potting fell short: • The tree was not tied/wired into the pot, so the rootball was loose and could rock (this shears the fine roots that take up water). • The drainage holes had no mesh over them. • It was in a dense, organic soil rather than proper free-draining bonsai substrate. • Mine also arrived with slugs and slug eggs in the soil. None of that is fatal for a hardy elm, and I remediated it myself — tied it down, meshed the holes, repotted into proper granular substrate and cleared the pests — but it’s more work than a beginner may expect, and the pests in particular aren’t acceptable. Would I recommend? For someone experienced who’s happy to sort the potting and check for pests on arrival, the underlying tree is genuinely good and worth having. Complete beginners expecting a finished, ready-to-go bonsai should manage expectations and be prepared to do some remedial work. Good tree, let down by the finishing and the pests.