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Originally Posted by Ashbarns9999
Another slant on this for those with limited funds would be to go round the Nurseries or Garden Centres and check the trees out the back that they consider too butt ugly to sell in the main arena.
Ash
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Well that may be a way...
But the point of this exercise is to get away from that idea all together. While a nursery for yard plants is a place to buy trees that can be cut down, it still is a proposition where people get stuck in the waiting game. They are not grown for bonsai purposes and will always have some traces of its meager beginnings present later down the road. It will show up in rootage and taper, two areas I just do not wish to spend a lot of time nurtureing. I would rather just pay for that and work on sculpting a tree. I know it is hard to make a paradigm shift in ones thinking. It is not for everyone.
Ask the people that have the best bonsai on any forum where they aquired that material, i'll bet in most cases it was collected or purchased. I am lucky in that I can collect my own material, but many people that wish to have a collected juniper will have to purchase one. We have to look at collected material in the same light as purchased material. They carry the same weight.
Al