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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
Join Date: Sep-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: U.S.A
Posts: 1,260
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Discussion
Let's start with a bonsai (truth) "no Bonsai that is maintained in a healthy condition will remain the same" This applies to all stiles of Bonsai and species of tree or plant.
Now if you apply this truth to your forrest plantings then your assumption is correct that at some point in time the planting will be taken appart and trees removed and posibly other trees put into your planting.
Here are a couple of thoughts, when you are creating a forrest planting you will often use trees that are in some way deficent and unable to stand on there own, when placed in a forrest planting with the gaps facing inward the limbs that are left fill out the fullness of the planting. If you look closely at the forrest Goshen you will see that there are no limbs on the inward sides of the trees. If you were to see this planting close and in person you would see that not one of these trees would stand well on its own, but together in the group planting they create the wonderful allusion of a very old forrest.
Understanding this I would not maintain a forrest planting with the thought that it may produce a beautiful individual tree at some future time.
Glenn
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