I could never judge a show, so many awesome!!! trees. Its hard to choose but I would say may 1st choice would be page 35, Dan's larch, it is so crazy, I would love to see it in person. 2nd is page 27, Dan's Korean hornbeam, when he says a really old trees should be gnarly, he knows how to pull it off. 3rd, the opposite of gnarly is page 27 the Japanese maple, 65 years of training!!! wow, a very well done twin trunk. 4th page 9, Korean hornbeam is beautiful. The crabapple is also great. I love the branch structure of the Japanese maple on page 42, its very natural. The windblown elm is amazing.
The zelkova on page 14 almost looks like it is 2 or more trees fused together, does anyone know if it is, or if it is possible to fuse zelkova?