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#19 - Bonsai Wisdom

#19 - Bonsai Wisdom

Small trees are pretty, but...

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Nico Olivieri
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Bonsai trees are only small in size because that’s how we want them to be. By constricting the root growth to a small container and routinely pruning the foliage, the tree stays small. A bonsai tree is grown from the same seed as a tree of the same species out in nature, they’re genetically the same. If a bonsai tree was planted in the ground, it would …

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