Ensure a future for my wedding gift

Hello,

I was recently given a bonsai as a wedding gift and I'd like it to survive a while. I've not looked after a bonsai before, but my wife had one a few years ago and it's not looking so good now.

I'll attach an image, but from looking online I'm pretty sure it's a dawn redwood. I think I can handle the watering / feeding of it from existing online articles. But I have no idea where to start with pruning or training. The original grower made the trunk very curvy, the branches are a bit all over the place and they don't start until quite high up the trunk.

Any ideas on what I could / should do with it?

wrathfulbonsai wrote: I was recently given a bonsai as a wedding gift and I'd like it to survive a while. I've not looked after a bonsai before, but my wife had one a few years ago and it's not looking so good now.

It's a mallsai. Just prune the shoots that get too long to keep its shape.
If you really want to turn it into a bonsai: plant it in the ground for a decade and let it grow.
Meanwhile, start studying bonsai.

Oh my... I forgot the important thing: congratulations with your wedding!

Haha, thankyou! Googling "Mallsai" has certainly answered a lot of questions

wrathfulbonsai wrote: Haha, thankyou! Googling "Mallsai" has certainly answered a lot of questions

Yup. Sorry for that.