Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ALDEVAUX
After having learnt the "hard way" what is a true bonsai from this forum and feel that the definition does not fit what the accepted concept of a bonsai is, why don't some experts in this forum try to formulate a good definition without any the ambiguities that exists in the official bonsaiwiki ?
Here is my try at it:
A bonsai is a dwarfed living tree or shrub or a group of them, artistically styled by man and grown with special horticultural technics in a man-made container or natural slab or rock.
|
Hi Aldeveaux,
In theory your pretty close, it would be ok to wright it in bonsaiwiki!
But, and here we go again, show a hondred bonsai to a bonsai artist or someone who works on a high level with bonsai, and you will see that only a few will actualy qualify as bonsai!
Because they use or give the word bonsai only to a certain standard of bonsai, even at last years Ginkgo Award not every bonsai showed there was up to this standart!
So you see Aldeveaux, bonsai actualy only means one thing, but to the world it means every small tree they see, but on a high bonsai level the word "bonsai" means something more!
I think some words outgrow their meaning and dont have to be breakdown to there excact meaning for people to understand it!
"BONSAI" isn't it a wonderful word!
Regards,
Hans van Meer.