Editorial Opinions - IT'S UP TO YOU by Greg Quinn If I took anything away from the April meeting, it was the importance of self-responsibility in bonsai. Of course it would be nice to receive a ready-made bonsai, or have someone else create the shape of one of your trees; but you wonıt develop in the art if you rely on others for your own vision. And to see the future bonsai in the rough material requires that you yourself do the rough work every step along the way. Bob Wilcox stunned many of us who are looking for mature material when he displayed his little larches that he got so cheaply and has formed so neatly. You could see the fun he has been having and result is spectacular. And, as native trees, theyıre well-adapted to living here in southern Ontario. Along the same vein, Reiner Goebel has demonstrated his use of native material in the Buckthorn before and after pictures on the cover (really before and continuing). By performing a trunk-chop, he began the slow process of forming a bonsai. Nature grows the tree, you create the bonsai. And you create the artist by practicing bonsai and creating the bonsaist in yourself.