I didn't understand this particular statement :
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As for the myth of "cruelty" or doing "unnatural" things to plants, Chandler looks to nature for a reply. He points out a cypress bonsai and a regular cypress, both 40 years old, match botanically. Almost in the same breath he carries that idea further into a height myth, that a plant cannot be called bonsai unless it's a certain - usually low -- height. It's all relative, he says. A 4-to-6-foot cypress bonsai is as much cypress as its 50-foot or taller counterpart. And "6-man bonsai" are so called because it takes that number of men to move them.
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That didn't really rebuttal the myth, if you torture a forty year old (person) and compare him to a non-tortured forty year old person they will still match botanically. duh. I am not defending those that say bonsai is cruel. Tree huggers are stinky.
Also he probably didn't have to "paint" a living tree to look dead, he should have just used a dead tree. \
alright bye
mike
I would say 60 percent horticulture and 38 percent observation and 1 percent cursing and 1 percent patience