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English Bonsai
If you have ever been to the English countryside, you will know that the
old farmland walls are made of large, rough stones, with gaps in the wall (so instead of blowing the wall down, wind passes through it - that's why these walls last so long). I thought one day recently that if I grew an English tree, for instance a Quercus Robur, or other tree which appears very aged after a short period of time and potted it, then used small slate pebbles to build a miniature wall, I would achieve a nice effect. The wall would run up, over the soil and when it got to the tree, it would be partially knocked over - loose stones, as if the tree had been blown into the wall in a storm, and knocked part of it down. The tree would be rugged and look quite windswept - you find this quite a bit when trees grow on the moors. I don't have any trees that would be old enough for this (and I don't yet have any oaks), but I think it would make a non-traditional, yet appealing bonsai. Is this too much of a modern approach, or would this tree be a convincing bonsai? Thanks for any feedback. Liam ================================================== ======== WWW.INTERNETCAMERASDIRECT.CO.UK Want a new camera? You'll find great deals on digital cameras and camcorders at Internet Cameras Direct. I have bought from them myself and consider them to be reliable and to offer very competitive prices. a href="http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/clickclocker/click.cgi?a=mcdo nagh.me.uk/&b=120x120_c01"img border=0 src="http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/clickclocker/getlink.cgi?a=mcd onagh.me.uk/&b=120x120_c01"/a |
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