I am sorry but if you think that is comparable to what is done with the Ebihara method I gues syou might have to look up the results of that method.
The nebari is not bad. But it is not what I would expect after an experienced bonsai grower cared for this, in a pot, for 21 years. Sorry.
Read the whole story. Look at all that was cut away from the butt of this tree and the year done. I won't live long enough to build a plate down there, and frankly some of them are just plain ugly, impressive yes, but not my cup of tea. I would love for anyone to post any tree of Ebihara, or any of the growers in Japan with plate like nebari and explain exactly how long it takes to develop a plate like that. I would love to hear from the grower, not guesses, not pictures, I've seen many. Some of those trees may be thirty or fourty years in training.
I just want something respectable, and I feel it is. After looking at all the pictures, and how it got here, I think its pretty good.
2002 I came about this maple thru strange happenings. In 2002 I went to the California Bonsai Societies yearly exhibit. While there, I purchased a very large Hornbeam from the booth of Kim’s …
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