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On every online forum that I’ve ever participated in, when a new enthusiast enters the forum asking for how to get started in bonsai, they’re inevitably given awful advice: go to your local landscape nursery, pick out an likely tree (in a big nursery can) and begin the process of taking it from untrained nursery stock to bonsai.
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This is an interesting post and certainly may have something to do with the questions posed in the "bonsai popularity" thread earlier this month.
On this forum I have occasionally read replies to the beginner that s/he
begin with stock of some kind, but I have found it much more common to read that the interested party might want to buy a book or attend a club meeting. Our FAQ attempts to be as evenhanded as possible in discussing the various ways of
acquiring bonsai.
This is a pretty typical exchange to the question that was posed just today:
http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...30937#post30937
but, it isn't unusual in suggesting books & clubs, clubs & books
http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...s=&threadid=208
http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...s=&threadid=152
Regards,
Matt