LOOKING AMAZING! Outstanding Medium Twisty Flowering Tea Tree Bonsai Kit – Choose your watering can!
£105.00Original price was: £105.00.£79.99Current price is: £79.99.
★★★★★(11)
SKU: Tea Tree Kit 1 (IDCAR55)
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The Ultimate Bonsai Kit includes a beautifully styled 12-year-old flowering Carmona microphylla in a ceramic pot, complete with a drip tray, scissors, fertiliser, care handbook, and your chosen watering can. Designed to make bonsai simple and enjoyable, this mid-sized tree offers glossy leaves, gentle summer flowers, and expressive trunk movement. Its symbolism of courage and devotion makes it an uplifting gift or a delightful personal treat. Grown with expertise by the Bonsai Direct family team, it provides everything needed to begin a rewarding bonsai journey.
What's in This Bundle?
1xFlowering Oriental Fukien Tea Tree (Carmona microphylla) Twisty Indoor Bonsai - Medium Size 12 years
1xDark Coloured Plastic Medium Drip Tray
1xThe Bonsai Direct Care Handbook
1xSmall Bonsai Feed - 100ml
1xSmall Bonsai Pruning Scissors - Great Value
1xWatering Can - Choose Colour
Description
Ultimate Bonsai Kit for Indoors | A Beautiful 12-Year-Old Flowering Fukien Tea Tree
Elegant Styling and Natural Character
The centrepiece of this Ultimate Bonsai Kit is the beautifully matured 12-year-old Carmona microphylla. Its glossy evergreen leaves, artistic s-shaped trunk and naturally refined flow create a graceful and eye-catching bonsai. Through summer, it produces delicate white flowers that appear in soft waves, extending the blooming period and adding an extra sense of joy.
Symbolism with Meaning
This species symbolises courage, heart, love, and devotion, making it a thoughtful and meaningful gift for birthdays, new beginnings, and special celebrations.
Everything You Need to Begin Your Bonsai Journey
Humidity/Drip Tray
This practical tray protects surfaces and gently boosts humidity, especially useful during winter when indoor heating dries the air.
Liquid Bonsai Fertiliser
The 100ml bottle of balanced feed encourages glossy leaves, strong roots, and healthy seasonal flowering.
Precision Bonsai Scissors
Shape and refine your bonsai with ease. Regular trimming encourages compact growth and a fuller canopy.
Bonsai Direct Care Handbook
You receive our comprehensive care handbook plus a species-specific guide for the Carmona microphylla, offering clear, beginner-friendly instructions.
Choose Your Watering Can
Add personality to your kit by selecting the watering can colour you love — a simple detail that makes daily care even more enjoyable. You may choose from midnight blue, forest green, cheerful red, recycled black, sage green and duck egg blue.
Why Choose Bonsai Direct?
A Trusted, Family-Run Bonsai Nursery
At Bonsai Direct, we grow and style every bonsai with expertise, patience, and genuine care. As a long-standing, professional nursery, we focus on sustainable growing methods, high-quality trees, and exceptional customer support. We never sell mass-produced bonsai; every tree reflects our family’s dedication to healthy, characterful growing.
Please Note – Generic Photograph
This bonsai starter kit has a generic photo. Your bonsai will be very similar, but each tree has its own natural character.
Specification
Evergreen
Yes
Flowering/Fruiting
Flowering - Small White Star Shaped Flowers
Pot Size (cm)
18 x 13
Pot Colour
Blue
Indoor/Outdoor
Indoor
Difficulty
Easy - Likes a warm position & does not like to be too wet
Maintenance
Positioning: Loves warmth and bright, indirect light. Avoid draughts.
Watering: Keep soil lightly moist; do not overwater. Prefers to be very slightly damp.
Feeding: Apply bonsai fertiliser weekly following the instructions on the bottle.
Pruning: Pinch back soft shoots to maintain shape.
Repotting: Repot every two to three years in late spring.
Note: Can live outside during summer months but protect from frost.
Pet Friendly
Yes
Bonsai Variety
The Oriental Tea Tree (Carmona microphylla) is a simple & elegant bonsai ideal for growing indoors. This bonsai has pretty white flowers during summer months & lovely green, shiny & waxy foliage. The leaves are unusually shaped & well proportioned. The leaves grow in neat clusters allowing the flowers and branch structure to be highly visible. A highly appealing & artistic bonsai.
Delivery
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Service
When will it arrive?
Charge
Standard Delivery
(England, Wales & Southern Scotland)
Next working day (order before 3:25pm) or your chosen date
FREE
Premium AM
(Weekdays before 1pm)
Next working day (order before 3:25pm) or your chosen date
£8.99
Weekend Delivery
Chosen Saturday or Sunday
£8.99
Highlands & Islands
AB37–38, AB54–56, FK17–21, GY, HS, IV1–63, JE, KA27–28, KW1–17, PA20–49, PA60–78, PH19–26, PH30–40, PH42–44, PH49–50, TR21–25, ZE
Two working days (order before 3:25pm) or your chosen date
£7.99
Northern Ireland
Two working days (order before 3:25pm) or your chosen date
£7.99
✅ Every bonsai is hand-checked, watered, and securely packaged for safe arrival.
📘 Printed care guide included with all orders.
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Bonsai Care
🌱 Bonsai Care Guide Beginner-friendly
Care
What to do
How often
Step 1
Read your printed Care Instruction Guide included with every bonsai tree before you begin.
Upon arrival
On arrival
In hot weather, stand pot in water for 5 minutes, then drain.
Once on day 1
Position
Indoor Bonsai – Bright daylight, avoid harsh midday sun & cold draughts. Outdoor Bonsai – bright to semi-shaded, sheltered position.
All year
Water
Check soil daily; keep damp to the touch (not soggy). In hot spells, soak the pot briefly.
Daily check
Mist
Lightly mist foliage to boost humidity and condition leaves.
Once or twice a week
Feed
Use bonsai fertiliser, diluted as directed. Follow the directions on the bottle.
Species dependant
Prune
Trim longer shoots to maintain shape and encourage new growth.
As needed
Health
If needed, use an invigorator/insecticide and follow the label instructions.
If issues arise
🌿 Don’t worry! Your detailed printed care guide walks you through everything step by step.
🎥 Extra help & videos are available on our website.
✅ Every bonsai is checked, watered & securely packaged before dispatch.
Expert Overview by Lloyd Noall
Expert Overview by Lloyd Noall
Value for money
★★★★★
Seasonal variation
★★★★☆
Easy to grow
★★★★☆
Sturdiness
★★★★☆
Styling
★★★★☆
Lloyd Noall, bonsai expert at Bonsai Direct, gives us his opinion on this outstanding medium sized flowering indoor bonsai tree kit; where you have the option to choose the colour of the watering can.
“An amazing value starter bonsai kit for someone with a warm home. The perfect gift, or best buy bonsai tree kit to start in the world of bonsai, because this kit includes everything you might need”.
“Tailor-made to suit complete beginners, this is a fun and rewarding bonsai kit with flowering 12-year-old, strong, well established bonsai tree which displays summer white flowers”.
“A relatively slow growing, evergreen species of bonsai, the Fukien Tea is considered a medicinal plant in the Philippines”. The leaves are used in the treatment of coughs, diarrhoea, colic, and dysentery. There is a legand associated with this healing power – Legends surrounding the Fukien tea tree recount the story of Kung Wei, a devoted peasant from Fukien province over 12 centuries ago. He trekked up a mountain to the altar of Goddess Kuan Yin, offering her tea as a daily devotion. When his wife fell severely ill with a stomach ailment, Kung Wei sought solace in prayer to the goddess, discovering a small tea tree upon his return, which he believed to be a divine gift. Brewing tea from its leaves brought relief to his wife, leading to her recovery and inspiring Kung Wei to distribute saplings of the tea tree to neighbouring villages as a remedy for digestive ailments, spreading the legend of its healing powers.
“A favourite informal upright S-Shaped trunk”. The “Informal Upright” or “Moyogi” style in bonsai reflects nature’s influence, featuring a gently curved trunk without rigid structure. The apex of the tree aligns over the base, maintaining balance despite the twisting movement within the trunk.
“This Carmona bonsai prefers to be kept drier”. This means that it benefits from less frequent watering making it easier to care for; and should not be watered as much as other varieties.
Lloyd has decades of experience in the art of bonsai and is the founder of Bonsai Direct. He started selling bonsai trees commercially in 1995, nearly 30 years ago.
£45.99
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