John Naka's dictum was:
"Make your bonsai look like a tree, not your tree look like a bonsai."
This one always makes me laugh, every year. It's a plane tree in trendy Manuka.
Gavin
(I've just noticed that there's no section that deals specifically with styling, or design. Hmm.)
Naka
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Re: Naka
Maybe its styled for viewing in full leaf 
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." ~ Vernon Sanders Law
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
"Bonsai becomes great when growers start trees they know they will never see in a pot"
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." ~ Vernon Sanders Law
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
"Bonsai becomes great when growers start trees they know they will never see in a pot"
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Re: Naka
Well being that they pronounce the name of the suburb incorrectly no wonder they got the philosophy wrong. 
So the Redwood turns to the Bonsai and says "Lend me a Tenner"......
