Vonsgardens

I think the phrase that has taught me the most is from Boon, after I had worked long and hard putting wire on big california juniper:

"What is that? That is wrong. Take wire off and do it again."

It stings (still does), but because of the requirement to do it correctly (How many times have we seen trees where the person who worked on it says "I wired this one up real quick, that doesn't matter tho, tell me what you think of the tree."), you actually make progree and lear how to do things the right way. Poor wiring technique does limit what you can do with a tree- and it looks bad. So criticism should address an issue that can be corrected- like- pick better material, etc. But it doesn't necessariily need an atta boy or atta girl attached to t. Want to see some good critiques- go look at what Walter Pall used to do here- he certainly used a direct (and I believe) effective manner of critique.

John

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"Wiring is simple; However, it is not easy to do it right" Boon