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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
Join Date: Sep-2004
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Posts: 1,936
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Thanks John. If you checked out the picture on the link, you saw how scraggly it was years ago. And time is what it takes, along with needle removal, candle plucking, back-budding,etc., to get a full canopy.
A friend who, when teaching beginners says: "Bonsai has 4 dimensions. Height, width, depth, and most important, TIME" How true.
Mike
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Learning the mechanics of bonsai is a matter of rote. Over and over again the processes are practiced until the hands and eyes know the moves.
Learning the art of bonsai may be more like water wearing away a stone, or climbing a mountain where the peak is always shrouded in fog and just out of reach.
Persist, and someday you may see the peak in sunshine. You may pick up the stone and it's a thing of beauty.
MP@BBB Studio
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