Jonny D

Hi Chris,

First of all I think we are going to get some (not all) people coming on here saying buying finished bonsai is wrong - you haven't done it yourself. Well I'm here to tell those people that there is absolutley nothing wrong with buying finished bonsai.

A finished bonsai allows you not only to have an excellent example of what a finished bonsai looks like but also allows you to practice more advanced techniques than you can on "rawer" material e.g.: ramification. The tree will act as inspriration. It should be noted that finished bonsai should only be bought (IMO) when the buyer no's they can keep it alive. A beautiful bonsai will always be a beautiful bonsai no matter who owns it.

So to answer your question for me I mainly work on and have stock, but do have a couple of examples of finished bonsai. I work on stock because the best bit for me (although there are a lot of best bits) is the creation point where you take what was an uninspiring peice of material and transform it into a bonsai image, along way from a finished bonsai but closer non the less. but I am not adverse to buying finished bonsai for many of the resons I state above (as well as many others), and currently I'm considering a Zelcova and a Azalea.

To some up a little bit (or alot) of both for me.

Jonny.