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bonsaiTALK Expert
Join Date: Mar-2004
Country: Switzerland
Posts: 161
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Hi,
thank you very much for the advice... I was planning to try and do the shaping within a course anyway and had showed it to a bonsai specialist at Schinznach. She recommended a certain bonsai course in June but I just got a mail from P. Notter because the course I wanted to go to is booked out so I will have to see what else I can use here.
The problem with trying to shape the tree within the Crespi course is that we are provided with material we are supposed to work on there already and the programm is "full", i.e. there is no time for any "side-steps". Already I will have to present and make some corrections to my "homework-juniper" and we will get a deciduous tree in our next class in March so... any advice taken within the course would be rather hurried and superficial and I feel that it would be a pity as I think that it is a really nice tree.
BTW there is no white growth on the needles that is just the natural shade. I will have a chat with P. Notter and see whether he has anything else he could offer coursewise here in Switzerland. Actually I have already "dug" a bit in the area of the roots but as I wasn't going to do any major shaping right now I have left it at that for the time being....
Well, as you wanted a lighter pic there is one here.
Regards, Ravenna
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