I love Bonsai Trees

Advantages: Fun
Disadvantages: None

...You probably think I'm weird....but wait!! So, Bonsai trees, I love em. Well actually I've only got one, so I'm no kind of expert on the matter but it does make a good houseplant. I've had it for a while now and haven't managed to kill it (so they must be robust) and it adds a bit (ok, the only bit) of colour to my room. Bonsai trees are like no other plant in your house, and its not just the fact that they are trees that makes them different. I don't know what it is about them that I like, but ever since I saw the Karate Kid movie as a kid I wanted one. Be it their mysterious nature, their rugged looks or oriental connections most people find them nice to look at, and being not all that common many people take an interest in them, asking what they are etc. There are loads of different types of bonsai tree you can buy, and they...

real_rob_writer 05.07.2001 · Read review
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Bonsai the plant on pot(!)

Advantages: Look gorgeous
Disadvantages: bring lots of bugs increase biodiversity on your window ledge

...Bonsai trees are special miniture trees that grow indoors (usually) in pots. Bonsai is japanese for 'potted plant' and originated in China. they are absolutely gorgeous, the idea of having an entire tree on your windowsil amazes me till today, they grow like trees for years and years, there are several styles and types of bonsai: The formal upright style, or Chokkan, is just as the name suggests, and is characterized by a straight, upright, tapering trunk. The trunk and branches of the informal upright, or Moyogi, may incorporate pronounced bends and curves, but the apex of the informal upright is always located directly over the roots. Mr Myagi from the movie Karate Kid was the first person to get me interested in Bonsai trees. In the movie he talks about how precious they are and how they needed to be treated carefully, and can...

f18nfz 29.07.2007 · Read review
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Create Your Own Bonsai

Advantages: Easy to care for
Disadvantages: Get someone to water them while you're on holiday!

...Create your own bonsai using nursery stock. Photos at: www.one2go.co.uk As there hasn?t been much said about bonsai, I?d like to show how easy it is to create your own bonsai, from a plant bought from a nursery or garden centre. I chose Taxus baccata adpressa ?Variegata,? which is a long-winded Latin way of saying Golden Variegated Yew. I bought this conifer from a garden centre last May and took photos of the various stages of creation, and I?ve included a picture of how it looks today. Firstly, bonsai can be created from any suitable variety of tree (suitable means that the leaves and growth habit should be not too large or vigorous ? don?t attempt to bonsai a Buddleia, for example! ? you?d be fighting nature instead of working with it). The idea that it takes years to make a bonsai, or that it?s an extremely skilled...

xandie1 21.06.2004 (22.06.2004) · Read review
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Trees Lounge

Advantages: Great acting
Disadvantages: Abit depressing but with lighter parts

...This Steve Buschemi's debut as writer and director. Made in 1996 it is a relatively unknown film but was a critcal if not commercial succes for Buschemi The film is about an alcoholic named Tommy (Steve Bushemi), the film starts and he is trying to wangle one more drink out of the barmaid 15 minutes after 'time'. The barmaid Connie(played by Carol Kane - Hester Street, Taxi) is obviously familiar and serves him with Tommy, which is an interesting tenet to the film as everyone knows everyone in this small suburb and everyone knows Tommy and he seems to recoil from it in shame. The bar 'Trees Lounge' is always populated by Tommy, an elderly alcoholic Bobby and another successful alcoholic Mike (Mark Boone Junior - Batman Begins, Lonesome Jim) Tommy starts to form a friendship with Mike thinks he is a looser. Mike is a strange character...

Phelthew 04.06.2008 · Read review
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Treemendous Tree With A Load Of Balls

Advantages: Fantastic Toy With Endless Play Vlaue.
Disadvantages: None

...Firstly to start this review I must appologise for the review tittle.....bad I know lol. After reading lots of good reviews and also this tree-mendous tree was recommended by a friend I decided to buy the VTech Discovery Tree (for rest of review referred to as tree) for my setting about six months ago. ~What Is It ?~ A very brightly coloured tree which is green, red, yellow, blue and orange.The tree comes with five friendly ball characters. It is made by VTech and is made of tough plastic and is fairly sturdy. At the bottom of the tree are piano keys labelled ABCDE and a flip board also an on/off/volume switch. At the top of the tree on the left side is a hole to put the balls down, the balls go down a helter skelter slide and roll over the piano keys to the flipboard at the bottom making various sounds and saying phrases as...

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Mother Nature at its Best!

Advantages: It will add a bit of the orient to your home
Disadvantages: delicate

...These plants are absolutly stunning, they are very delicate and even blossom in perfect conditions. Lidls at the moment are selling very cheap bonsai trees and are Carmona or Fukien tea types . These are very nice and do blossom and very hardy . I would say to anyone thinking of getting one to go for it ! because its so rewarding to keep a plant which slowly grows due to you care into something of true beauty. The basics are keeping them in light and airy conditions with watering every week as you would do with house plants. Also feeding every two weeks and before you know it you have a tree which has so much uniqueness and oriental feel to it that you will be over the moon . You will see one the internet and in shops with bonsai or even BNQ'S that you are told to buy bonsai special food , i want to tell you that its rubbish go out to...

seano0o 18.03.2009 · Read review
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The Lime Tree Restaurant, Manchester

Advantages: The food is consistently excellent! Sticky toffee pudding is to die for mmm....
Disadvantages: The outside dining area could be better

...The Lime Tree is an independent restaurant is situated in leafy West Didsbury in South Manchester. For those unfamiliar, Didsbury has a fairly foodie reputation and there are tonnes of restaurants, both chain and independents throughout the area. For as long as I can remember it is unofficially referred to "the best restaurant in Didsbury". It's certainly the first place I would think of to have a celebratory meal, perfect for when you just want that something special to mark an occasion. "The food" Having started out as French cuisine, nowadays the food is mainly modern British / brassiere style. Expect to pay between £3-£8 for starters, £11-£20 for mains and about £4 for deserts although they do serve Sunday lunch menus and early bird offers for lower prices (example price 3 courses for £15.95). Most of the mains are...

ciaomiaow 15.09.2009 · Read review
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The cats ascratch the playmobil tree!

Advantages: good addition to the vet play
Disadvantages: none

...I am reviewing another toy that I have bought for my 4 year old granddaughter it?s the Playmobil cat scratch tree. I bought mine on line with the Playmobil pet transport. The R.R.P is £7.99 but you can buy this on line from £5,99 at http://www.bumblekids.com athttp://www.kiddicare.com its £6.49. This toy is suitable for a 4 year old it has small pieces which may be a choking hazard. Now I couldn?t resist opening and playing with this toy. It includes 2 Playmobil children a boy and a girl. The blond haired boy wearing blue trousers and a white top with blue stripes. The blond haired girl wears a red scarf on her head. She wears green shorts and a red top with flowers on it. Then there is this ?tree? a yellow plastic pole with a little box at the base this has a hole so that the cats can be put in it. Then there are two platforms...

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Oil is good for you - The magic of tea tree

Advantages: Can be used for just about every discomfort; smells lovely
Disadvantages: very expensive

...Tea Tree seems to work wonders for everything with me and there are a range of different products that contain this essential oil to perform different healing properties. Tea Tree is a clear, very strong natural oil taken from the leaves of a plant called the 'Melaleuca alternifolia' along the streams (er, and swamps) in Australia. You can buy it in concentrated form (albeit very expensive as you can imagine) but most product such as shampoo's. lotions and antispetics which contain low does of tea tree still work wonders. I will point out just to cover my own back, that despite the label of 'tea', this oil is non-ediable! ***** Types of tea tree products; uses; health benefits and effects 1. Incense - I usepure natural tea tree oil iin my intense burner at night. An intense burner is a porcelin pot with a hole in the middle...

LaceyR26 14.06.2009 · Read review
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Better than the other 6 trees - Goldfrapp

Advantages: Good mixture of tracks
Disadvantages: An instrumental track, WHY?

...So who are Goldfrapp? Vocals are provided by the extremely kooky (and sometimes barking mad) Alison Goldfrapp, the great music is provided by Will Gregory who does a darn good job. This is their fourth album and as far as creativity and good tunes go they are still going strong. So what do you get on Seventh Tree? 1 - Clowns. Alison sounding like Joan Baez singing a 60's protest song with Will creating a great guitar lead backing that fills out to a relaxed string section. Think "Cavatina" meets "Rejoice in the Sun" (by Baez, its off the "Silent Running" soundtrack) and your in the right neighbourhood. My only complaint, Alison is a bit too close to her mic for my liking. 2 - Little Bird. Lots of phase effect on Alisons voice with the hammond type organ and violin intro, its a nice laid back start to an almost Beatles style...

atytyut2434 16.05.2009 · Read review
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