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Greybeard
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,247
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Moving on to the black pine area. We have all sorts of choices here. Black pine is a tricky subject. While some say they are easy to train and prune, there are others that say they have terrible luck with them. I have had terrible luck with them, and have just recently began to get a hold on them. The last 5 years have been the easiest, due to lots of training sessions with Dennis Makashima. Dennis comes to Fresno once a month to prune the Black pines in the Shin Zen gardens in Fresno. A premiere Japanese garden setting with a hundred bonsai Black pines. He enlists the Fresno Bonsai Society to help with pruning. Hey its work, but we get to work with a master. And...the training is free.
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