Interesting phrase "dreadful to an American eye"..are you saying that
Americans always produce exhibition standard bonsai? ;o)

Mike Bennett
http://www.bonsaiartists.co.uk


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Subject: [IBC] Myrtle Bonsai


Having killed several, & hopefully learned from my mistakes, I recently
bought another dwarf myrtle (Myrtus communis 'Compacta'). Seeking
inspiration on
the Web, I looked for some pictures. Searching on "Myrtle bonsai" brought
up
nothing but crape myrtle. Searching on Myrtus communis brought up one
decent
specimen from Phoenix. There were a number of pictures from Germany &
Austria,
all of them dreadful to an American eye. They were all done in pompoms.
Even a
natural unstyled myrtle in Israel looks better (it grows as an upright
oval
dense bush). Don't tell me a myrtle can't be styled to look like something
with
taste, or can't it?
Iris


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