Thanks for your feedback Gavin,GavinG wrote: ↑April 10th, 2022, 10:38 pm The detail is intense and wonderful, but might I suggest that the outline is straightforward, and does not match the complexity of the detailed branches? Maybe some ins-and-outs, light and shade, density and open-ness? It's a great tree, showing years of intelligent care, but maybe you could (cough) mess it up a little?
STRICTLY only my opinion - it's a very fine tree as it stands. Well done. Damn fine.
Gavin
I was just up looking at it and these photos definitely aren't doing the tree too many favours in that they make it appear more "helmeted" than it really is. I have cut back pretty hard so hopefully as it fills in the "light and shade" will become more apparent. It's propensity to grow is very difficult to reel in, so I'm inclined to believe it will do a reasonable job of messing up my order all by itself in a matter of weeks!