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Originally a Chinese Import "S" shaped tree, not really raw stock. I thought the transformation was very interesting so I included it since even BVF included a picture of someone else working on his tree:p

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Brian Van Fleet

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For Vin; Ilex crenata. Hacked down from 5' tall and 8' wide landscape shrubs planted in the early 1950s (owner's father built the house, they grew up in it. It was the first house on the street).
2012:
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Transferred to my growing bed:
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2015. Long way to go, but a fat boy no doubt!
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This is a Chinese elm I bought at Bonsai Northwest in Seattle in 1997. This photo was from around 2003:
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It produced several good root cuttings. Here is one in the ground around 2012:
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Which was chopped low, dug and root pruned in 2013. Really ugly.
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Potted in 2015. An interesting and promising little shohin:
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PaulH

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Most of my trees are in the do it yourself category but I don't have before pictures. This one is a Privet. Dug up in my yard in 2008 where it came up as a volunteer weed. The second photo is in 2014 at the GSBF convention exhibit.
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Japanese maple I started from a cutting I made from another tree that has been swimming with the fishes for over a decade. The picture with the cuttings was lifted off google, but from what I can remember, it looked JUST like that;).
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I think it's pretty obvious these are my work. If it was someone else's work, I wouldn't embarass them by putting it up here...

I bought several dwarf crapes from a local nursery that looked like this:



And here is my best effort with them. It's filled out a lot more since this picture and I've started using the other side as the front but you get the idea.

 
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