1st Yew ! Taxus cuspidata Japanese Yew Emerald Spreader

Japonicus

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Been almost a year since I bare rooted this.
Today I hard pruned a couple branches pencil sized (which results in a fair height reduction
and some knuckle issues addressed) then cleaned up underneath most others
and just went through trying to omit some natural flaws that would work against any promising design to follow.
Before
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Front-ish side
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the Back

After
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Front-ish
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Left side

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the Back.
You're looking into the end of a jin not a space where a branch was removed, yet.
Wired the jin a little with #8 and the shoulder started separating when I bent it down.

The yew has some scale insect. Good that I got in there and messing around some.
 

Japonicus

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It doesn't seem like it's been 5 years since I bought this gem.
I certainly have lost track of time as it's been nearly 4 years since I bare rooted and potted down into this, then available pot.
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Looks like I need to rotate the tree next potting. It's still percolating well.
 
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