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Bonsai Master, in my mind
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Back Home in Northern California
Country: USA
Posts: 1,795
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Ooohhh Greg...
Here comes another opinion...
You messed it up with all that trimming...
That very powerful nebari and trunk could easily handle the foliage mass you showed us in the first photo.
"...long and leggy..."? Definition of "leggy", from Webster's, is, in part "...having long, spindly stems with leaves FAR apart...". Not what I saw in the first photo.
OPINION...I say again...
Without seeing this bonsai up close and personable...if this bonsai were mine...I would have trimmed...no, thinned...the foliage mass, and and reshapped the foliage to make look more like a tree...less like a bon bon.
But, then, I'm not much of a mugo bonsai fancier.
Well, it is your bonsai...
Like I said...opinion. Or was it OPINION?
Pat
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THE ONLY WAY: Always remember, and don't ever forget, that whatever you read here is not cast in concrete... the intent of any advice is to help. In no way should you feel that I’m saying that my way is the only way…heaven forbid! I've seen far too much of the "my way or the highway" attitude in bonsai as well as in other areas of life.
Pat Patterson...Bonsai in the Greater Bay Area, Northern California
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