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S.Reavis.P
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Do I have to make my tree fit a style?
Can't I just let it grow naturally and only cut branches off or wire branches when they are doing something that is bad to a full sized tree?
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Gnome
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S.Reavis.P,
The bottom line is that you can do whatever you like. I had a tree that simply did not fit into any of the established styles and when I asked on another forum about it I was advised that my idea was not viable. Well I tried to force the tree into one of the defined styles and have never been happy with it since.
[url=https://walter-pall.de/iaboutme.jpg.dir/index.html]Walter Pall[/url] has been a proponent of what has become known as the naturalistic style of bonsai. And the late John Naka has famously said "don't make your tree look like a bonsai, make your bonsai look like a tree.
Norm
The bottom line is that you can do whatever you like. I had a tree that simply did not fit into any of the established styles and when I asked on another forum about it I was advised that my idea was not viable. Well I tried to force the tree into one of the defined styles and have never been happy with it since.
[url=https://walter-pall.de/iaboutme.jpg.dir/index.html]Walter Pall[/url] has been a proponent of what has become known as the naturalistic style of bonsai. And the late John Naka has famously said "don't make your tree look like a bonsai, make your bonsai look like a tree.
Norm
