Pen pal Nina wrote:

If I were to
characterize the American character, I'd say we expected to
have
everything *obey* us. The biggest lesson about plants I ever
learned
was that they really have different care needs, and one size
doesn't
fit all. Nowadays when I buy a new tree species, I just watch
it for
a year, before I think of doing anything. I want to know how
it
branches, how it buds out, what its roots do, how it handles
drought,
etc.

Colin made note of the same thing in one of his messages; that
you need to know how trees BEHAVE before you can expect to shape
them even into a semi-artistic creation and expect them to
survive.

So, everyone who wants to DO bonsai take note of the above.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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