Vonsgardens

Vance, sorry you have such a dim view on purchasing expensive stock. This sounds a bit socialistic, in that you are appearing to denigrate those who might. I have seen very nice trees come from cuttings and seedlings as well as nursery stock, and I have further seen very nice trees come from collected material and mature material purchsed for continued work. The adage that you can buy the time of others is apropos, in that you are doing just that when you buy developed stock. If you chose to not pay more than $XX.xx for plants that is fine, but to attempt to devalue those who do is of little value in itself.

Regardless, you can do bonsai on a realistic budget (your reality is your reality), however, if you want to put your trees into expensive pots, well that is a conundrum.

Cheers,
John

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