Originally Posted by Attila

I agree that the the articles used to be more technical in the past. But I am not sure whether that was a good thing. It's a matter of personal preference.

I don't have much patience for overly technical, step-by-step articles page after page after page. Watching how to bend a branch over 2 pages of 20 photographic sequences are rather exhausting than instructive, at least for me. No wonder it took a week to finish reading it. I would just skip half of the pictures and cut to the chase.

There is only so many ways of wiring, bending, and pruning a branch. After seing it once, the same technique is applied over and over again on different trees. Same with rootpruning. Reading about it once every two years is enough for me.

But the diversity of outcome is different every time. Seing the big picture, instead of all the minutiae, can get me excited every time.