Shimpaku from Evergreen Gardenworks

Brian Van Fleet

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Did some work on this one over the last few days. The wire had dug in over the growing season:
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Unwired and pruned back, deadwood scrubbed and lime sulfur applied:
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More pruning and full detail wiring:
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Planted into a new old container:
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leatherback

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You know I like this tree. I think it really has come together, great work.

however... I keep more and more staring at the bottom-right branch. Somehow it seems a misfit, angled the wrong way. Is this just the picture-angle effect? Or is something else happening which I am missing?
 

Brian Van Fleet

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You know I like this tree. I think it really has come together, great work.

however... I keep more and more staring at the bottom-right branch. Somehow it seems a misfit, angled the wrong way. Is this just the picture-angle effect? Or is something else happening which I am missing?
Eventually it may need to go. The tree moves left, the branch moves right. It also creates a distracting line through the whole composition up through the top left Jin. It’s staying for now because it would be necessary if the back becomes the front.
 

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Eventually it may need to go. The tree moves left, the branch moves right. It also creates a distracting line through the whole composition up through the top left Jin. It’s staying for now because it would be necessary if the back becomes the front.
Really nice tree. Its not the branch that bothers me but the dead wood near the branch. Thats what creates the straight line with the upper jin. It may look different in person based on the pic i would probably lose that jin.
 

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You know I like this tree. I think it really has come together, great work.

however... I keep more and more staring at the bottom-right branch. Somehow it seems a misfit, angled the wrong way. Is this just the picture-angle effect? Or is something else happening which I am missing?
Eventually it may need to go. The tree moves left, the branch moves right. It also creates a distracting line through the whole composition up through the top left Jin. It’s staying for now because it would be necessary if the back becomes the front.
Without knowing how flexible the lower pads are, I don't know if this is doable, but here's a look at it with the lower two pads on the right tweaked a bit.
 

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misfit11

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Without knowing how flexible the lower pads are, I don't know if this is doable, but here's a look at it with the lower two pads on the right tweaked a bit.
I agree as well. I don't like the look of the negative space with the branch removed, but bending it up, as bwaynef suggests, ties it in better with the overall design.

Nonetheless, this tree is looking fantastic! Nice work, Brian.
 

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Without knowing how flexible the lower pads are, I don't know if this is doable, but here's a look at it with the lower two pads on the right tweaked a bit.
Great minds think alike. I was just thinking the same.

Love the base and deadwood work on this guy, Brian.
 

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Another Shimpaku allowed to grow unchecked all year.
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I love the carving and transition on this tree bottom left, have a similar tree that would benefit from this approach. I expect the left side may have been similar to the right in the beginning of development.
 
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