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Originally posted by Leesa
For Walter - yes - I can appreciate his view to working with only the best material - which should be good enough for international exhibition. However - for the very large majority of us on this forum - bonsai is a hobby - something we do for pleasure - granted it may even be an obsession for some.
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There's a second issue as well - how does one get access to this great material?
I think part of the answer there is that one has to get to get good enough at working with mediocre material that one is willing to drop a substantial sum of money on raw material, or to spend a week wandering the mountains to bring back a single tree. One has to develop sufficient talent and style and artistic ability that others want to enlist one's help with their best material, and to engender the trust of those looking to hand on their own masterpieces.
So yeah, I need to start looking for better starting stock...but I can't just throw out my current trees just because they'll never be any better than Walter's maple. I've got learn something somewhere.
All the best,
Carl