Collected Azalea 1- Styling Advice

[EJZ]

Hi All,

here is an Azalea that was collected from a development site in Sydney a year ago.

I think it is ready for styling.

Can anyone help me with ideas or direction? any verts, comments or ideas are much appreciated.

[Guy]

no virts but all 3 in the 3 posts have great potential-interesting bases and structure and probably won't need a lot of work to look nice--

[kcpoole]

Just a quickie virt based on your last image

Pick the front based on the best most appealing nebari, ( I would pot this one lower though).
clean out all of the crossing branches and shoots, then pick the main lines on the trunks and branches you wish to keep. Get rid ov most of the other shoots and branches.

Cut the remaining branching back hard to well within the final outline you want, make sure there are no long straight sections to make the eventual design look ugly.
Allow to reshoot and wire the branches and new shoot down to allow the outline to fill in with foliage

I see a nice wide multi trunk tree with lots of platforms for flowers, and lots of negative space between them

Ken

[EJZ]

Thanks Ken and Guy for your responses

I will take you comments into account when I style this tree.
cheers
Eugene