Black

Very oddly I have an exactly same project in hand regarding to a Chinese Elm.

When my wife and I had married and moved to Ghent in Belgium, we had coincidently come cross this Bonsai store at the city south where we met a crazy man that firstly imprinted us with an amplified passion for the art.
We had a very serious fungus problem in the studio we had rented (One we were NOT aware of before hand naturally) and our trees started to die. We both wondered how this guy made a profit since he kept gifting us new trees to feel better about the loss… alas he has closed the store down. Pity I have no connection o him.

We keep the trunks (they were myogi style sohin) still after so many years… finding the exact cultivar am growing saplings and saplings from these saplings and so on. Hoping to get an enough number at a given time to restore all the trees we still have trunks of from back then.

My deepest apologies...
if I sounded discouraging. As I reread my words I can understand how they must have sounded.
I believe that centuries ago when some guy in China said that he had heard of trees shrunk to fit a pot and that he would have wanted to try it… there must have been pretty odd reactions.

I think of the greatest magnets Bonsai has to the most of us attempting at it is the "manner" that you do not stop at trying to bring out what you envisioned to turn out possibly beautiful. Please go on with your project… now it caught my attention as well MUCH more than being very curious of it’s results!

Yes… I can clearly see ho much her loss must have hurt (Here we call all tree’s a “he” through Dutch influence… but I have always seen Azalea as a “She” for some reason). She would have been very beautiful.
Pity.

GO for it!

Black

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