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- From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
- Subject: Re: bonsaied fruit trees
- Message-ID: <lkbva0INNaib@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 20:38:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.031326.5774@math.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan1.031326.5774@math.ucla.edu> ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez) writes:
- |I am an avid fruitgrower (fanatical hobbyist) with a longtime fascination
- |for bonsai (and completely intimidated by it.)
- |
- |Are there any special skills/techniques required for turning fruit trees
- |into bonsai? Any problems (other than the hugeness of certain fruits against
- |the smallness of a bonsai) to be encountered?
- |
- |I am aware that fruit bonsai could be limited to small-fruited/leafed
- |species such as kumquats and natal plum but I am interested in in trying
- |other things. Can bonsai be on a slightly larger scale and still be
- |considered bonsai? (i.e. large enough so that oranges or apples
- |would not look ridiculously huge).
-
- I saw a bonsai apple tree about 12" high, with one single normal-sized
- apple on it. It didn't look ridiculously huge at all. It was this tree
- that motivated me to get into bonsai.
-
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