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• Thursday, December 02nd, 2010

Sometime in the Summer of this year I visited Jim Smith’s Dura-stone in Vero Beach to pick up some new Bonsai material to work on.  I wasn’t sure what I was after, but Jim has some of the best tropical trees in the business and his prices are right on.  So after a 2 hour drive I arrived and walked through the rows of tree for hours, but nothing was jumping out at me.  So I decided to have a seat in front of the little shop entrance for a while and try to think of what I might want.  Jim Van Landingham sat down and we began to speak about bonsai (of course).  However it wasn’t 5 minutes later that I stopped him mid sentence say, “Is that a Simpson’s Stopper?”  It surprised me for a number of reasons, especially that it was at Jim’s nursery. 

Well it turned out to be a Simpson’s Stopper for sure, and a nice one at that.


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