Frozentreehugger
Masterpiece
Just thought I would post a progression . Of my Eastern white cedar . From here foreword . Looking for any ideas and or opinions . Especially about the styling of the dead wood . Tree was collected 7 years ago this spring . From a piece of granite sloping up from a beaver pond . Growing in a rock crack . My fellow toothy Canadian chewed the main trunk off . I believe . To remove it out of his way . So he could slide other trees into the pond . Which damaged the tree more . The challenge so far . Main large root anchoring the tree into the crack was dead . There is only 2 living branches on this tree . Off a living vein on right side in first pic . The live roots ran up the granite slip to access soil . Only moss around the tree . The dead wood . So far has not been touched in any way including preservative . Just allowed to age and rot . For those that are not aware these trees . Are renowned for there rot resistant wood especially . In wet situation . Not really obvious here is the fine branching top that is dead . All the bark on left side does not have living cambium . Under it So far the work had been to get the root mass reduced it was over 4 feet long when I started . If spring ever gets here I’ll get better pics . It is due for a repot . Into at least one more pot before the final pot maybe more tree gas never been styled or wired the 2 bran cheap have been cut back twice to get back budding but allowed to just grow . Tree was very slow to recover from collection . It sulked for a solid 4 years Anyway looking forward to springs repot and start it’s styling . Any thoughts like I said especially on styling the deadwood . Anyone care to take a stab at trees age
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