Anyhow, first up is a trident maple I have had for a little while. It has a nice thick base on it in respect to the height of the tree but the nebari isn't doing much for me, so I was having trouble getting motivated to develop it. It is a bit too parallel with the soil and "finger-like" to be convincing for my taste, so today I decided to bite the bullet and ground layer it. Hopefully the pics below help explain what I am talking about and how I did the layer... And that is mission 1 for the day complete. Hopefully towards the end of summer I'll be able to unveil a new set of roots and kickstart this tree into a new direction.
