From a nursery in Calabria, Roberto Liccardo has built WeBonsai into a company that sells a living product across Europe — and treats teaching the buyer how to keep it alive as part of the thing being sold.
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From a nursery in Calabria, Roberto Liccardo has built WeBonsai into a company that sells a living product across Europe — and treats teaching the buyer how to keep it alive as part of the thing being sold.
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