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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,451
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Charles,
what you are showing is not exactly of my taste. This is not a good naturalistic style, it is an amateurish effort. It is the old scalene triangle used as cookie cutter with the wrong material. It is a misunderstanding of what naturalistic design is all about. it is the understanding that naturalistic is the easy way out, a shortcut. This is wrong.
You are creating a rather stiff formal upright which does NOT remind of tropical fig trees. Go to your local park and look at the huge fig trees. Do they look like your virtual? No way.
They have enormous trunks with all sorts of roots dangling and very deep sitting lower branches which go oout far, very far. The tree is much wider than it is high. The top is NEVER a triangle, but a one-sided elllipse, a scalene half-ellipsis if something like this exists in the English language. the crown never has distinct branch layers, but ruther fuzzy, cloud-like huge layers. Not even an eagle can fly through between the branches, but it can fly in, one can see the inner structue of the tree.
Here is the tree that I got for demonstration. What could one do with it to teach and impress an eager crowd?
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