Vance Wood

The thing I find encouraging here is the attempt to acquire editors that are also bonsai savvy, that know bonsai and grow bonsai. I have for a long time complained that many articles published as translations of non English sources tend to be ambiguous and in some cases contradictory. The difference between buds, shoot, and candles are prime examples. In many translations these elements are often designated as the same thing. In the authors mind they may represent the three states of existence of the same thing but in the mind of those of us in the West they are three different and distinct items. For someone just getting into the world of Pine bonsai this can be a tremendous hurdle to get over.

So for what its worth my hat is off to Wayne for looking to his base for a resource he needs to improve his magazine. Certainly you can find room to complain about some aspects of the magazine, but think of where the bonsai world would be without it? There are few outlets for any one but the World class artists, now there is a possibility for us Schmucks to make a contribution from the middle of the road.

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The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa