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Originally Posted by bonsainotwar

I had thought this thread might have taken a different direction.I have a juniper,a euonymous,and a sand cherry cultivar,that I rescued from the garbage at the garden center,at one of those "big box" chain stores,we all know and hate.These stores get in so many plants,that they can't possibly take care of them all,and a sizeable chunk of these end up in the trash compactor.And not even because they die.More often,it's simply because the regional ogffice has ordered more plants for each store than they can sell.They have a shipment coming in that they no longer have room for,so the existing stock gets tossed out.It matters not if this stock is prepackaged cupcakes,or flowering shrubs.The Wal-Mart model of retailing may be defended by the right wing in this country,but it is a scourge on society,and the planet.

WADR, what different direction did you have in mind? This is a bonsai forum; the discussion of the poster's "trash tree" lightly touched on the origins of the specimen, then--quite rightly in my view--focused on the tree as bonsai and its development as same.

Whether or not "we all know and hate" the "big box chain stores" seems to me a point largely unrelated to bonsai, as well as one clearly debatable. (f we all hate them, how then do they come to thrive?)

There seems to me to be no shortage of strife, even sometimes within the friendly domain of this forum! Thus I'm always happy to read about positive events, such as the splendid salvation of this tree, and the friendly, creative suggestions made about its cultivation. And that's why I'm also happy to leave the war against Wal-Mart for another time, another place.

Cordially,

Lucas Cato