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I'd hate to know what the cost of this pot alone would have been to Robert. I haven't been to Indonesia for a fair while, but the last time I was there these sort of pots just weren't available like they are here. Things might have changed, but I still reckon this pot was part of someones luggage coming home from an O/S trip one time.

As I said before, this is just to sad an event to contemplate. I feel so sorry for all those involved in this collection.

I have been there twice and the ficus and the native species they use , cant remember species name but grows in rocky cliff sides usually near the ocean are incredible! I hope all trees were saved . Dont know the full story but the corruption of the indo government makes ours look like saints Maybe someone wants to stick a resort there ?

Pemphis acidula, Matthew. Absolutely brilliant stuff. Buggered if I could ever keep it alive as good as they do it.

I saw something posted about this on the Bonsai South page.. they don't know all the details but apparently the government was buying up land and evicting local businesses and residents. From what I gather the nursery owners might have been anticipating this, and maybe that explains why we can't see much green? Maybe they managed to get some trees out before the carnage started?

When my late lecturer at UNE, went to Flores, they uncovered The Hobbit. As they had permission to do this, and some Indonesians were involved in the dig, they sent the original skull to someone in charge a Prince. Who knew nothing about Paleoanthropology and Archaeology. They changed the skull. Luckily our team had taken a plaster cast of it prior to handing it over. Then these Indo lot, started to dispute Mike's and Peter's description to suit their own. But they were ignorant of Palaeoanthropology so their scam was soon uncovered.

If you tune into Bonsai Farm TV there is a lovely expo of Penjing landscapes, held in Manilla in 2013, and the coordinator of this, handles the politics all the time. So it was said.

I suppose in a way, other than wanting to evict small business owners who stand in the way of development blocks, (Hope they don't get earthquakes or volcanic eruptions there?). There is an amazing amount of racial jealousy, when someone who is foreign comes around and on their own turf finds an amazing genus of a hominid, no one else knew about? To the point they will sabotage a precious artifact.

Thank goodness we live in a relatively democratic country.