I’m enjoying this Deshojo maple a lot more since heavy pruning and wiring in the winter. I’d always been unsure about the twin trunks in the first photo and was getting no backbudding down the trunk to fill out the image. It just kept growing upwards! The trunk was too thin so I decided to make a more compact image. More of a broom style now that its in leaf and I can live with this recent image a lot better. Nice to see a positive difference in two years. Hopefully a winter image later this year will be just as pleasing and will show better ramification too. It’ll go into a smaller pot next year.
summer 2015
summer 2017
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