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Hmmm that is somewhat worrisome, but I'm counting on you to be good to this newbie, I expect an awesome trident maple in that pot. HaHa....just kidding Al.

That works for me, just remember "whatever tree is in my pot becomes my tree."

Smoke, I'll bring it out in January. Its a cool bot for sure.

These are just stunning, so glad you shared. I agree with Sly, love the simplicity of the trunk on this one.

Grimmy at almost 62, I totally hear ya. I agree, Judy has a great eye, and I bought one of her trees recently, and love it. I should have been a tad more clear on this tree. I purchased a tree from this individual making the comments about compound direction and unfortunately it suffered a...

Thank you Grimmy for your thoughts on this.

Thumbless, I see what you mean, does seem to fit with what he said. Thanks for sharing the photo.

Nice score Judy, you're going to have fun with this one.

Thank you to both of you for your input. Lots of foliage and hard to see whats going on, but here's 2 pics.

I inquired on a tree I'm considering purchasing and this was a portion of his response. I'm just a bit unclear as to what he means. "Tree has two tops. You can go slant style or back over the top (compound direction). Bonsai in old days was compound direction, since then has moved more...

Can someone explain this or show me an image of compound direction in a tree. Thank you.

It really was JudyB and I'm excited to see how these brevifolias do in the coming years. So glad I took before and after photos, big changes for both these cedars.

My first workshop was quite the experience and Ted was a wonderful teacher. Felt I learned so much. Anyhow here are trees all wired up and somewhat styled.

I just did an air layer on a hornbeam in my bonsai basics class and the wire is wrapped on the bark above the exposed wood at the top.