Have you ever taken a bonsai to a club meeting or a workshop just to get everyone’s unsolicited advice about how you should style it? We have an often repeated joke in our local club that if you ask ten different people you’ll get twelve different answers. That’s especially true when you have an unkempt tree that is in desperate need of styling. And apparently also true if you don’t even ask.
This is exactly what happened when I brought a pine to a club meeting last weekend. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the tree I have been calling the ugly pine…
It’s a Virginia pine, Pinus virginiana, that I collected a few years ago. It recovered well and has been a vigorous tree. Obviously I have made some decisions like removing the large trunk that is now a jin. I even started to…
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