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Originally Posted by Ralph
A bonsai ... becomes my bonsai the moment it comes into my possesion.
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I have to agree with Ralph. Once a tree is legally in your possession, it is yours.
Once it is yours, it is your responsibility to care, water, pot, fertilize, etc. You can take credit for keeping it alive, maintaining, or restyling the tree. You may take the blame for broken branches, broken pots, dead specimens and unmaintained styling. It is your tree and your decisions will determine development or death.
Your integrity should guide you as to the telling of the history of the tree. Though you may give credit to another for past development of a tree, it may also be said that if the tree has not been maintained well, that you must take the blame. (The past "master" may not appreciate his name being used in conjunction with a badly restyled or diseased tree.)
-Candy