My folks love to snarf around nurseries and one year, on a visit, they found this guy in the almost kindling pile at one of the smaller nurseries in town. Since then, it's lived on as a wan'abe cascade.

It's had a particularly hard life, unfortunately. The squirles just love to jump up and grab the cascade - which invariably makes it fall from its shelf. Twice I've lost branches that I was using to form a crown - I'm (we're) working on number three now. Oh well ... it may never be a great bonsai - but it'll make a nice icon :-)