"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
news:001a01c35627$dab95c40$c5112cc7@pavilion...

And now... a wish (for everyone in this NG and on IBC): please
don't
dismiss people asking which trees they can grow inside with a
short and
definitive "they'll all die". Because it simply isn't true.
Provided
that certain conditions are met, they can even be made into
decent
bonsai. And since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even
more so.

Hmmm.

You have to consider, of course, that 99.999% of these "indoor
tree" questions come from rank newcomers to the bonsai world.
Ninety percent of THESE may have grown a Philodendron at some
time in their lives, but little else. Given those kinds of
givens (and it is easy to tell when you have one of these folks),
the answer that a juniper will die when kept inside verges on
prophesy.

I agree. But...

I don't know about you, but I like to know the reason behind such
claims ("they'll all die"). And the reason is not "because they're not
indoor trees".