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The Importance of Starting With a Good Trunk - A Brief, but Essential, Lesson for Beginners
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The Importance of Starting With a Good Trunk - A Brief, but Essential, Lesson for Beginners
Leaving out the primacy of horticulture - knowing how to keep a bonsai alive - it is essential to understand that the trunk is the most important - and least malleable - aspect of a bonsai. It has been said, "Show me a great trunk, and I'll show you a great bonsai," and, "Foliage is merely current events, and branches are just recent news: but the trunk is history."
Therefore, good potential bonsai material means, first and foremost, that it has a good trunk. A good trunk has girth, and...
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