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Article: DWARFED TREES YIELD CENTURIES-OLD SIMPLICITY, GRACE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- June 27, 1994
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Byline: MARTY HAIR Knight-Ridder
Rick and Diane Kolleth coax plants into doing the opposite of what nature and most people expect them to do: Hrow up.
The Kolleths are bonsai gardeners, a group that dwarfs plants to create living art.
Bonsai specimens may be gnarled, twisted, craggy and contorted, peeling and aged decades, even centuries, old. they are bent from the stresses of a lifetime, or made to look it.
Bonsai does not happen overnight. It appeals to perfectionists, to those willing to scrutinize details and to spend hours and years to achieve a goal.
``This is something vastly different from growing roses or growing ...