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Craig I know you're a thinker when it comes to being progressive with bonsai, hence i love discussing it with you. You know mate i would have this tree and the other in a minute. Then i'll change'm both!!!

OOps there's that word fashion again The asians have been styling figs like this for ever. Bodhi & Chris do you think the branches on those trees i posted were put on yesterday because the fashion changed. Na i dont think so...

But by all means if you like this styling run with it baby!

anttal63 wrote:Craig I know you're a thinker when it comes to being progressive with bonsai, hence i love discussing it with you. You know mate i would have this tree and the other in a minute. Then i'll change'm both!!!

OOps there's that word fashion again The asians have been styling figs like this for ever. Bodhi & Chris do you think the branches on those trees i posted were put on yesterday because the fashion changed. Na i dont think so...

But by all means if you like this styling run with it baby!

G'day Ant, no, i agree 100% that the tree's you showed us are stunning and look superb..but so does Craigs. What i am suggesting, and stay with me here, is that if the trees branches you showed us were deemed to be incorrectly designed and they were yours, would you cut them off and start again? Craig's tree is 26 years old and, in its own right, is beautiful to look at so why change it? In another 20 years it will be magnificent and admired in much the same way i admired the trees you have posted. Not fashion but just a beautiful tree that should be admired for what it is.

Bodhi im with ya mate, not goin anywhere.

Totaly agree Bodhi.

thanks dear frnds for paying attention......especially to Ant for posting pics........
anybody who has time to adopt me as a student.?????

Craig,,,though i m living only 250km away from himachal ,ididn't get chance to explore it:( i m very unlucky....

Thanks for the posts. I don't do fashion, not even vaguely interested. If any of you guys come to my nursery you will notice a distinct lack of new release plants, I avoid them like the plague. But I am interested in growing some good bonsai and thats what this post is about. I don't really give a damn what the latest trends are but I do think figs look better grown in an informal broom style rather than being wired like a cedar.
To Yadibrar I think there are some lovely trees up in Himachal with your name written all over them mate.

gday guys

i agree with bodhi, admire for what it is, also craig you bring up a good point, why do we have to conform to having figs styled like figs? or pines like pines? a lot of people start out making trees all like a traditional informal uright pine, im not saying do that but i am saying that there shouldnt be these invisible boundries that state its a fig, why has it been styled like a pine or a cedar, my sort of response is why not? if i can style a fig like a old pine or cedar and it will work, i will, especially coming from an area that cedar dont like to much i have to re create and use imagination with the trees that do well up here, and if that calls for a fig to be styled that way, why not?
i konw there are the traditionalists out there that will say it is a bit rediculous i think turning a blind eye to a tree that has been styled like a different species would be is just a little stubborn, to turn a blind eye to a great tree because traditionalists and conformists say its not right, should i cut the branches off and rebuild? no, i admire it for what it is and what i have, to spend the time and effort on this fig that has gone into just shows your development over the years as you gain more time and experience the tree will change with you even if it is only subtle or possibly a major over haul, the art is in the creator and working with a living changing medium is always challanging.

sorry for the rant guys

jamie