Beginnings of a Banyan

[Jeremy]

I've had this tree for 4 years now without paying too much attention to it. Did some carving work recently and finally settled on a design. When I purchased it, all the trunks were the same height with no useable branching, the trunks have had a number of chops in that time as the initial chops weren't low enough. Finally have some variation in trunk heights and some branch work beginning to develop. I'm going to focus on fattening the lower branches and healing all the chops.
I carved out the fat centre trunk recently, which I feel opens it up and de-clutters that area. Gotta clean up the area a little more. First photo was taken December 2013, after the first round of trunk chops.
It is now a more noticed tree in my collection, looking forward to the next 4 years

 

[Jeremy]

Got this one potted 2 months ago and let it power through spring, pruned back recently. I think this is becoming one of my more interesting trees, needs a lot of work on branches and some decisions to be made on trunk heights but for now I'm enjoying this every time I pass the benches

 

[Bonsaihead]

Really like that tree! I feel like it has a very strong presence and a great story to tell