Andrew F: Do you mean everyone should strive in the first place to grow cookie cutter style trees, with a few fantasy ones to add spice to one's collection?i believe the art lies in planning and designing a traditional tree, i think everyones collection should have some of these expressive styled trees.
Hi Lisa, Glad you enjoyed my ramblings.... 'Cookie Cutter' is thrown around a lot yet i think its a bit of an over applied term.LLK wrote:Glad people appreciate that article.
Andrew F: Do you mean everyone should strive in the first place to grow cookie cutter style trees, with a few fantasy ones to add spice to one's collection?i believe the art lies in planning and designing a traditional tree, i think everyones collection should have some of these expressive styled trees.
Thanks, shibui, for the info! Now I know which Jow this Joe is, I mean which Joe Jow is. I already had an inkling, since I've been perusing his sites a few times. Great contributions!
Shibui, hope to see you Sat. at the grand Opening of the NBPCA! And maybe Joe too?
Lisa
) that is technically and aesthetically worse (supposedly by someone who meant to be 'better' - or charges more at least 
). As you can tell it gets me fired up as well!
Jow: I agree, and when used to critique someone's trees it is downright insulting. (BTW, I hope that Andrew F realised I was kidding! See winking smilies.) The term got popular about 10 yrs ago, from what I remember, when there was a huge wave among Western bonsai enthousiasts in favour of "natural" and "naturalistic" styling vs "traditional, classical" and "conservative", with caustic disputes on the IBC, pages and pages long. Walter Pall was the great defender of the first lot of characteristics, though his principles were and often still are misunderstood.'Cookie Cutter' is thrown around a lot yet i think its a bit of an over applied term.
