figaro wrote:

I have a really hard time
deciphering people's attitudes from their posts and I generally assume the
worst because that has been my experience with people in general.

May I suggest for your consideration the following?

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so
much trouble." --Rudyard Kipling

I agree
that there are extreme differences between bonsai and landscape trees but I
think the biology is the same.

Biological principles are the same for all living organisms.
However, scale is very important in biology. Landscape trees
are living more or less at the scale and in the environment in
which they evolved, and to which they are thus adapted. Bonsai
are living in quite different conditions from those in which
the organisms evolved and to which they are adapted. It seems
to me that the latter are much more delicately balanced at the
edge of survival than the former.


Mike Prager
On the North Carolina coast - Zone 8a
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