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This cork elm has just about reached the end of what I can do with what I have. For further improvements something have to change. Being so apical, the bottom is sparse and the top is lush.
As dug 2013
Today 2016
So I either have to change the design or chop it down. I can't chop it down with out years of work, so I have two choices. I think I will open this to discussion and see where it leads. I have about 60 days to make a determination on which way I go to prepare the tree for spring.
Option one:
Make a literati type tree out of it. The easiest of the two choices. Cut off the branches, change the pot and easy peasy.
Or do an air layer mid trunk, remove some branches for seperation and make a kifu size moyogi out of it. This would help make a better trunk and get the branching more in proportion.
As dug 2013
Today 2016
So I either have to change the design or chop it down. I can't chop it down with out years of work, so I have two choices. I think I will open this to discussion and see where it leads. I have about 60 days to make a determination on which way I go to prepare the tree for spring.
Option one:
Make a literati type tree out of it. The easiest of the two choices. Cut off the branches, change the pot and easy peasy.
Or do an air layer mid trunk, remove some branches for seperation and make a kifu size moyogi out of it. This would help make a better trunk and get the branching more in proportion.