"Sadly, many experienced growers adopt the same mind set in thinking because they have been doing bonsai for so long that no one is able to teach them anything new or useful."
I agree with you 100% Vance! Luckily, I've not found any of those people in person in my area-everybody around here I've met is interested in new/useful methods or ideas. At a demonstration by Dorothy on slash pines at the 06 Miami show, the entire room was still as she showed us how to bend and manipulate a tree everyone thought wasn't workable! New techniques, eager listeners... and there were several highly regarded people in the audience
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Learning isn't just at the "beginner" stage.
What was that saying? Check your ego at the door, there's not room for it in here?
