Hundred-Year Bonsai

An idle garden measured in seasons. One tree, one pot, one veranda: a real L-system bonsai with thousands of leaves that grows in real time and while you are away. Prune, wire, repot, water, feed, defoliate, jin and turn it — every verb changes future growth, not the shape in front of you. Seasons crossfade from blossom to snow, judges grade your form against seven classical styles each autumn, and at a hundred years the tree is printed in ink onto a lineage scroll and passed to a successor with heirloom traits. Six species, ten pots, no fail state.