Slow Bonsai

Bonsai is the art of keeping a tree small and beautiful for years. Slow Bonsai lets you practise it in a few quiet minutes a day. Your tree grows a little every day — even while the app is closed — and follows the real seasons where you live. Trim the pale new shoots before they harden, wire branches into a more graceful line, and water the soil when it looks pale. There is no score, no streak and no rush. Nothing you do is ever wrong, and nothing in your garden ever dies. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Watch your tree bud, leaf out, colour and rest through spring, summer, autumn and winter • Trim new growth and wire branches to shape its silhouette over months and years • Water, feed and repot as the seasons ask • Keep up to three trees in your garden, each with its own name and history • Take photographs of your tree and share or save them CHOOSE YOUR SPECIES Start with a Japanese Black Pine or Japanese Maple, each arriving in its own hand-glazed pot. BONSAI PATRON A single optional purchase adds six more species — Shimpaku Juniper, Chinese Elm, Japanese White Pine, Trident Maple, Satsuki Azalea and European Olive — two more glazed pots, and room for as many trees as you like. Everything you need to grow a tree well is free; Patron is there for anyone who wants a little more, once. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Slow Bonsai works entirely on your iPhone. No accounts, no ads, no analytics and no third-party trackers — your garden never leaves your device unless you choose to share a photo. A small tree, cared for slowly.