Originally Posted by vtbonsaichief

Not to be argumentative, rockm, but Australia and India are pretty big places too. In fact, I'd venture that Australia has more species diveristy than the US. But i digress.

So then it should be possible and more practical to form regional bonsai study groups, no? Say, a Northeastern study group, or a central/midwestern study group?

I also want to point out that I am aware of those species being used , Vance, but they are mostly western species. not that that they aren't interesting in their own way, just that, well......

Okay, so I guess my real beef is that Northeastern species, the plants where I live, are not being utilised to any great degree. But in general I would like to see as many NA species used as possible.