Wild Tamarind
(Lysiloma latisiliquum)
Style: Informal Upright
This tree was posted recently as well, it is a tree that I have had for a while floating around. At the beginning of last year, I decided to take the tree in a new direction. First thing I did was chop the trunk down further, and did some preliminary carving, and wired out it's new style to get the tree going in it's new direction. Last picture is one I found of what the tree looked like before. Third picture is after the chop and first wiring. Second picture is what the tree looked like as of this spring. After the tree had been allowed to grow out all last year. First picture is what it looked like as of today. I messed up... The tree was cut back hard this spring, and had really grown in since, and I didn't get a photo before I again cut back hard the foliage this past weekend, to push new growth.
This tree is one of the hardest trees I have had the pleasure of working on... due to the fact that it likes to die back rather far, is compound leaf, and one can let a branch run free for quite a bit of length without actually putting much growth, or thickening of the branch. Which is apparent from the second picture, where the overall width of the tree at the time of the photo was over 4 ft wide! Problem is then has to worry about cutting back really far and nothing popping on the branch...
I want all of the branches to in the end be about twice the thickness that they are now... but, have decided because of it, I will now at this point, allow sacrifice secondary branches to run free off of the main branches. This will also allow for development to begin of the ramification of the tree.