jjeter

It makes me wonder how we got all the different bonsai styles to begin with. I would love to see what a bonsai forum in Japan in the 1400's would be saying when someone brought a double trunk to a show. Is this guy nuts? Did you see that tree, two trunks, what a mess? Or how about the first slant style? What is he trying to do with that piece of c*%$? I would have never bought it? It will never look like anything. Where did he get that, something some one else threw away?

This is the great thing about bonsai as well as any art form, it has people in it and people are different. Different backgrounds, different cultures, or just want to be different. It all plays into the game. I have been in clubs where there were some "radical" bonsaists. They had some great trees, didn't conform the the "rules", but were voted the 2nd and 3rd best trees in the show.

Is it garbage? I don't know, depends who is looking at it.

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Jeff

Student of Bonsai