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Originally Posted by Vance Wood
I don't mean to bad mouth the bonsai stores but for the most part unless you are looking for some high end imported stuff or pretrained material you are not likely to find the kind of raw material you may be looking for. .
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I suspect this varies tremendously from bonsai nursery to bonsai nursery. Bonsai Northwest here in Seattle has lots of promising raw material at very reasonable prices. Perhaps a hundred small, untrained black pines. Another hundred procumbens junipers like the one that I used for my styling contest tree. Another hundred shimpaku junipers. And so forth. Most or all priced well within double digits.
What they don't have is an overabundance of raw material that is going to make national-quality trees. But I don't know many places that do.
Best wishes,
Carl