[For Sale] Hornbeam - 40 years in training

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[For Sale] Hornbeam - 40 years in training

Post by Leigh Taafe »

I have better pics for this one - I will add them as soon as I find them.

This hornbeam has been trained for the last 40 years, it is over 50 years old.

Price $5000

PM me if you are interested.
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Post by Matthew »

nice leigh, BLOODY nice .wheres Bretts he will get excited, very excited :lol: im already paying off an expensive tree atm overwise temptation may have been there :palm: good luck with it.
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Ummm God dam ya Leigh. Yes I want this tree but god dam it is out of my price range, I could only spare about half that a year or so ago and now is no better :palm: Anyone that wants to really upset me then buy this tree :tounge:
Then again anyone that loves me please buy this tree and give it to me :lol:
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You know what the problem is here Leigh, That you will be lucky to get 5 grand for it. The tree is worth a lot more. Fourty years of training at 5 grand works out to.. ? per day. Sorry i am a Bonsai man not a mathematician. Maybe somebody can work that out for me :reading: Anyway, bloody cheap i say .
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Nice tree leigh
way too far out of my price range :crybye:

Bodhi, the rate works out at 34.246 cents per day!

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Hmmm, be it expensive or not the tree is worth $5000.00 if anyone were to want it I reckon 8-)
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kcpoole wrote:Nice tree leigh
way too far out of my price range :crybye:

Bodhi, the rate works out at 34.246 cents per day!

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bodhidharma wrote:
kcpoole wrote:Nice tree leigh
way too far out of my price range :crybye:

Bodhi, the rate works out at 34.246 cents per day!

Ken
Thanks for that Mr Poole :yes: Well, well, It works out that Bonsai Masters are dirt cheap. Even sweat shop workers get more :cry: Hopefully, one day Australians will recognise Bonsai trees as a legitimate work of art and be happy to part with a realistic sum of money for the Artist's work and care.
I agree there, Bodhi. Some of the junk 'art' you see that people pay tens of thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) for, and very few of them take even a year to complete. Where is the fairness in that?

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kcpoole wrote:Nice tree leigh
way too far out of my price range :crybye:

Bodhi, the rate works out at 34.246 cents per day!

Ken
Hmm,

lets see. At that daily rate leigh was on stage today for about 70 mins and then about another 80 mins doing a workshop.

Thats 2 1/2 hours. Divide 34.246 by 24 then multiply by 2 1/2 = 3.567291665 cents for todays work. Hardly seems fair.

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Do not think of hourly rates for growing time when it comes to selling plants, it just wouldn't work ever. Even my marigold seedlings would work out impossibly expensive if I thought like that. But it only took me 5 mins to lift and pot them, so at $2 I am doing well, if, that is, anyone should buy them.
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Well worth it this tree is awesome in the flesh. Good luck with the sale someone will get a bargain.
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Here is a pic taken last winter.
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One thing that drew me to this tree Leigh which I think I mentioned once was it's similarity to a tree I have loved from my first Bonsai book. Bonsai for beginners by Craig Cousins.
Here is a snap of the hornbeam out of the book.
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Little more refinement your hornbeam will be a stunner like this I reckon :hooray:
Don't suppose Pup saw this one on his visit to Craig!
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Post by Leigh Taafe »

Thanks Brett - well if it doesn't sell soon it will be a lot shorter and less wide, and will be potted in a much smaller pot. This will most likely happen to all of my large bonsai if no one is interested in them. The only reason they are for sale is that they are too large for what I want in a bonsai.
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Post by Pup »

Cant say I did I just went though my photos of the trip some nice trees, but not that one unless it was in a different pot and did not get a special pictaken.

Now we have High jacked the for sale column. We could be in trouble although we are not doing a Critique as such but close to it. :reading:

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