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Bonsai nare-do-well
Join Date: Jan-2003
Location: Summerville SC
Country: USA
Posts: 4,653
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Originally Posted by Joanie
Upon getting it home, the actual shape of the tree started to sink in. It took a while to consider what it could use to make it better. Then it began to sink in that if I restyled the tree, it might take years to get back up to a high standard. The whole top needs to come off, it needs much in the way of smaller branches. No work has been done on secondary branching, it has been treated like a pine. So it looks like an oak dressed up as a pine. It will never look like a naturalistic oak, but it could use a spreading canopy and more branching all over, and a reduction in height. That's going to be a long journey.
Joanie
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Originally Posted by Joanie
But for this tree, that does have a history and an original artist, it will never really be mine. It will be influenced, perhaps.... it will grow in a different way than anyone else's touch would grow it. And I will be influenced by it, as well. It will retain a little of the awe, a little of the glamour... a sense of continuity that gives a different satisfaction.
Joanie
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Did the same lady say all this .
From what I get from your comments you have a bad tree that needs a lot of work. But it does have a history.
All bonsai artists are judged by the quality of their trees. Sounds like yours had a history of bad styling.
Go for it and you might just make a great tree from what you have.
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