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and the one that triggered my pasión for bonsai 5 years ago.

This is a Cytisus racemosus (sweet broom), a species native to the Canary Islands. Here we call it "retama" (broom). I decided to buy it, not for its potential as a bonsai (which it certainly has), but as a tribute to my father, who passed away last year, a month before I bought it.

My father was 97 years old and used to tell me stories of his childhood after the Spanish Civil War. His (my) family worked in agriculture and raised goats. Back then, it was common to have a pack animal, and ours was a camel. To feed it, he had to climb to the slopes of Mount Teide every two weeks with his father and the camel to collect broom. He was 7 years old, but he would leave at 2 a.m. to walk from the coast (where he lived) to an altitude of over 2,000 meters to collect the broom, load the camel, and then descend back home.
I will be forever grateful to him.