If the equation balanced differently; where there was no time pressure and the goal wasn’t to finish, but just start.

Would you plant the seed or strike the cutting and allocate a portion in your garden to set out to create your ultimate tree for future generations to continue and enjoy. All while knowing that you may never see its full potential as a bonsai in your lifetime?

Pictured here, 4 years apart a fused 9 tree multi trunk Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides).

Let us know in the comments what you are growing or what you are planning to.