Hello Iris,

What I don't like here is only the climate. We have a lot of snow in the
winter, 3 to 4 feet and I live in a 3b zone so, I let you guess the damage
it can do to you Japanese Pines at -35C! And in the spring... all the snows
melt during the day and in the next night it goes to -15C! Poor little root!

We have a wonderful botanical Garden and wonderful people who work here, the
climate is so cold than we learn to be warm!!! :-) The only reason I want to
move to Alberta is the temperature there. Montreal is 5a zone and Toronto I
don't know. But the only thing I know... I want a zone really really really
hot!!!

What I dislike more is than I choose a passion which come from warmer zone
and where most of the master come from warmer zone... so when they say than
the best thing is this and that... I find nothing of this and I become
discouraged! :-( I would of like so much the history of bonsai would come
from Quebec and all the master would say: "The only best way to grow bonsai
is to learn how to grow sugar maple after it gaves a cup of suger water!!!"
:-)))

I still think I was such stupid to talk politic it was not my intention and
it is still not! And be sure... separatists are not fanatic at all!
Federalists neither.

Another example? Do you know what is in my stove this morning? 2 bags of
HARD akadama!!! Because it is not enough hard!!! I would become slush in the
next spring. I grow big bonsais "5 to 14 inches trunk" I did spend 1000$ca
this fall only for my soil! And I am still not sure if I did right. I made
40$ phone call to find Pumice here. Imagine the tree I would have for all
this money! When you read Walter Pall saying "I grow my big bonsais in 100%
pumice because it cost nothing!" and nobody here know pumice! A bag of 40
liters cost 5$... but 40$ shipping!!! This is why I hate than this such a
wonderfull Quebec is such in cold climate with a lot of snows!

This winter I will build a greenhouse and try to simulate a 6 or 7 zone...
it will cost a LOT of money to warm it!

Cordialy,

Michel




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In a message dated 9/30/05 12:04:40 AM, Michel writes:
I hate being Quebecois "in the bonsai context." But I knew the "rest of
the
world" wouldn't know the political situation here (in Quebec)!

We occasionally hear the reverberations. I am aware of the Separatist
movement (we also have one in Puerto Rico), and the fanatic wing of
Francophones.
However, I have found the Montreal Botanic Garden delightful. What is wrong
with
Quebec "in the bonsai context?" Is there a feud between Montreal and the
Toronto Bonsai Society?
Iris

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