Maybe I am reading the wrong magazines. I have two pet peeves.
One is that they have this photo essay of the Big Expert who takes a $3000, 300
year old juniper with lots of deadwood & turns it into a masterpiece. I need an
article which tells me how to turn a $25 juniper in a 4 inch pot into a
masterpiece.
The other problem is that the books & magazines have step by step articles on
how to take a tree from day one over a period of six years & turn it into a
bonsai. But either I didn't have this tree six years ago, or I didn't have the
magazine six years ago, and the tree is six years old. I need an article that
tells me what to do with it today, not what I should have done six years ago.
Sometimes you can extrapolate, but it is usually difficult to tell what is
going on when you walk into the middle of Act Three, Scene Two.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)