----- Original Message -----
From: "elize marie mann"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: [IBC] Myrtle Bonsai


Iris, the needleclipping is just one of the techniques in trying to get a
shorter growth on the new needles.
Not for exhibition!!!
And under the best of sircumstances not to be done more often then every
two years.
elize

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 PM
Subject: [IBC] Myrtle Bonsai


In a message dated 6/13/05 11:43:17 AM, writes:
Interesting phrase "dreadful to an American eye"..are you saying that
Americans always produce exhibition standard bonsai?

Don't be silly. I am assuming that since they took pictures of these
trees
and posted them on the Web, they are considered "exhibition standard" in
Europe.
I also assume that the pompom effect is considered desirable in that
region.
It is a matter of taste. I have seen pictures of high quality pine bonsai
in
Japan with the needles clipped short. That's their taste. In this country
we
wouldn't dream of it (I hope), not even on Ponderosa pines.
Iris

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