And if the tree should grow half an inch?
Oh right, you cut it down to size ...

Stop being silly. A bonsai is a living and evolving work of art. It may be kept
approximately the same size for years. The grower may choose a different front,
may let it grow larger, or may cut it back & make it smaller, then repot it in
a different pot, just as a curator may sometimes put a painting in a different
frame.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

And if the tree should grow half an inch?
Oh right, you cut it down to size ...

Stop being silly. A bonsai is a living and evolving work of art. It may be kept
approximately the same size for years. The grower may choose a different front,
may let it grow larger, or may cut it back & make it smaller, then repot it in
a different pot, just as a curator may sometimes put a painting in a different
frame.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

And if the tree should grow half an inch?
Oh right, you cut it down to size ...

Stop being silly. A bonsai is a living and evolving work of art. It may be kept
approximately the same size for years. The grower may choose a different front,
may let it grow larger, or may cut it back & make it smaller, then repot it in
a different pot, just as a curator may sometimes put a painting in a different
frame.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Iris Cohen schreef
Stop being silly. A bonsai is a living and evolving work of art. It may be
kept approximately the same size for years. The grower may choose a
different front, may let it grow larger, or may cut it back & make it
smaller, then repot it in a different pot, just as a curator may sometimes
put a painting in a different frame.

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A curious comparison. Whenever the owner of a work of art wants to change
something about it for example to fit it into a frame or close spot he is
likely to get sued by the artist, who regards this as defamation of the work
and an infringement of copyright.
PvR

To stay with the topic of stunted old trees, I have been wondering how it
goes with the efforts to grow Argania spinosa in Israel on a scale allowing
commercial harvesting of oil?
PvR