Around 2007 my landscape company did a project for one of the Nordstrom brothers in Medina. To date this is probably the largest landscape project I’ve done since going full time with my business. They were building a new home at a water front property with some very mature trees. Except for a few trees, most of the trees were going to be cut down and composted. One those trees is this dogwood tree that is very healthy but badly pruned. I decided to take a gamble and saved it. Planted it in the ground and just let it grow for about 6-7 years.
It continued to be healthy and thrived and it would have been an awesome tree as a landscape tree but I think it will be even more amazing as a large bonsai tree. And so that’s what I decided to do. In 2012, I experimented cutting back…
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