Val Garth is an expert at making a little deal out of big things as the secretary of the Northern Suburbs Bonsai Club.
Snipping away at branches to reduce a tree normally 10 metres high to several centimetres high is not always delicate work.
“Sometimes we use an angle grinder to get the right cut,” she says. “It’s also impolite to ask a tree’s age.
We want them to look 100 years old, as if they are part of an ancient forest, when they are not.” For more information, call 0400 833 250.
