Nina,

Seeing your name attached to this thread gave me a
chuckle. Then to open and see you were talking in
your Bonsai Doctor voice made it even funnier. Yes,
we should be nice to newbies to encourage the art of
bonsai but to a certian degree thay are like a fungus
and keep growing. It is an on going treatment. The
cure is to get them hooked on the more consuming
disease of really doing bonsai (what ever that means).

Kits

--- Nina wrote:

I have this problem all the time with the "Bonsai
Doctor" page; mostly
I get queries from newbies with their first tree,
and I have to
struggle with how much to tell them about what
bonsai is all about.
Usually their concern is keeping the tree alive, and
they have little
interest in its future training: they assume what it
looked like when
they bought it is what it will always look like- all
they have to do is
water it and admire it. So generally, I just answer
the question, and
as a last sentence say something about the ongoing
nature of developing
a tree, and tell them to read a book on bonsai or
join a local club.

Nina


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