Myth #1: Bonsai is difficult

Posted by: TinyRoots / Admin on Jul 07, 2009

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Myth #1: Bonsai is difficult:

As soon as you have experienced one season as a bonsai enthusiast, you will have gained much of the essential horticultural knowledge to care for your bonsai – the aesthetics may take a bit longer.  You can continue to educate yourself about the traditions of bonsai by going to bonsai shows, looking at trees in publications or viewing online sites. Explore how you can become a member of a local bonsai club. Within a few years it is possible to create and refine a plant started from a garden center into a bonsai tree that will bring you satisfaction and pleasure.  Remember, each bonsai master was a bonsai beginner.

 
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RoseyRayF
Learning Bonsai
written by Ray Fujii , September 12, 2009
I think most seriously interested bonsai hobbyists share common characteristics. We won't go into that now but the nature of the hobby making it what it is, is that there is always something to learn and your knowledge will show in your trees, long term.

Fly fishing is a good comparsion to bonsai. You can go to any tackle store and pick up your flies. Eventually you may want to tie your own. The next step is awareness of the stream ecology and all that goes on under water as well on the surface. The real hardcore become amatuer entomologists, knowing all bug names in latin. Ha, ha, I was such a lousy fisherman but catching fish was no longer the object. Now I don't need to carry a fishing rod when on the banks of a stream or lake.

Life is like our bonsai. Do we just buy ready made trees or are we willing to go in depth to find why things are as they are and how do we cultivate ourselves. Truly, a bonsai is an extention of our inner selves.
 
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