"Jim Lewis" <jklewis@NETTALLY.COM> wrote in message
news:001601c45fa7$648f3320$32112cc7@pavilion...
> > Hey Andrew,
> >
> > IMO what's missing is better context for articles/books.
> Authors have
> > significantly different philosophy's/culture. There's a pretty
> radical
> > difference between container culture vs soil culture (in the
> ground).
>
> Yes and no. Plants grow as plants grow.
no? pondering... Ah, reference to phisology being same. Sure. However, the
implementation (mix, feeding, etc.) is radically different.
>
> > Further authors subscribe to various philosophies... ancient
> bonsai purest,
> > new age bonsai experimentalist, horticulturally educated bonsai
> enthusiast,
> > hortoculturally educated bonsai nurseryman, seed not speed, and
> so on, and
> > so on. Wish there was a real list of these categories 
> >
> > I have a Deborah Koreshofs(sp?) book... good book...
>
> Correction: Excellent book, but still not written for bonsai in
> YOUR neighborhood, YOUR climate, YOUR water, with Miracle Grow
> (or whatever) fertilizer.
My point is more about the difficulty in understanding context when you
start studying bonsai. I had read a bunch of articles, several books,
workshops, and newsgroup q&a before I had enough "critical mass" (knowledge)
to reconcile the all the seeming contridictions. Certainly Andrew has a
_much_ better foundation than moi, but I feel it's still applicable.
>
> Jim Lewis - jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Wishing that
> people would remember to snip all the unnecessary OLD stuff from
> messages.
>
>
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