Well, gonna start packing trees away for the winter this weekend. Getting down to -7 with snow in a couple days.
I may update a few trees while they are out.
So the story of this tree this year. It got stumped out in the middle of the yard. Normally I keep my trees all around the perimeter of the yard so that the family has useable yard space too. It makes it hard to properly view and plan a big tree like this so I brought it out for the summer to where I could walk all around and study it properly.
Tried to identify branches and bits that were going to be unusable for a final design and pruned some of them away. A few guy wires to move things apart and towards potential final positions. This was not styling but opening it up enough to really be able to see what’s going on inside. Then I looked and thought many times through the summer. Can’t say I’ve made up my mind about all the upcoming moves but narrowed down my choices anyways.
Here’s a quick shot of my favoured front view that I took this evening. It’s horribly backlit and looks like barely any foliage, don’t panic, photo very deceiving, I did prune some but not much yet.
I’ll try for better pics tomorrow.
The tree is growing moderately well, a few runners taking off, not exploding with them but overall nice, green, healthy.