"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
Well, I can't visit Dale's booth -- ever -- without buying a
pot, and wishing I could justify a few more. So don't forget to
add a collection of empty pots to the growing collection of
bonsai. And then, of course, you have to fill the pots.

Unfortunately, his site is temporarily down, but I got'em bookmarked. Since
I don't plan on having alot of bonsai, I plan to get the finest pots around.

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Most of us built a collection of "bonsai" -- often as many as
100 or so. Then we learned enough to take good hard looks at
those "bonsai" and see that only 2 or 3 of them could drop the
quotation marks, and we dumped them -- or moved them back into
training pots for some _serious_ work.

I've been at it four years and have just one bonsai in a pot, a semi-cascade
bougainvillea that has the look of a bonsai but doesn't seem finished. The
rest (7 bald cypress growing for a forest planting and 2 black pines) are in
training.

If I get the bonsai bug bad, is there a 12-step program to
help me or am I doomed?

It's called old age.

Ha!

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