Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
Not SO cliché... I'd say there different "grades" of bonsai. There's the everyday variety of bonsai that people do with their own trees in their own yards and planters. I do it too with the trees growing on our property.

Then there's the bonsai "for show" -- top notch stuff done by people who have had some formal training in that discipline... It's the real McCoy that gets brought out to display at special events, ceremonies, and so on.

But even a basic, layman's interest in it has some following. Our next door neighbor actually grows bonsai (for resale). She keeps a minimum of about 20 of them at any given time in her front yard. Nowadays I don't think she sells anymore, since her husband passed away a few years back. I think she just keeps them in memory of her late spouse more than anything.
Cool.

Took an interest in them as a little kid, and have an assortment of them in training on my property. I have no interest what so ever in selling them, just training them.

I also make the bon or pots, again, not for selling, just as my own art for my own trees.

Right now, I'm in the middle of excavating and training a seven year old, behemoth lemon bonsai that is intended to be a little over three feet tall, and has the trunk and first branch developed so far. It will be an informal upright, and will probably take a couple of years to get it out of the ground. I might be working on the apex by that time.

You can wake up now.