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Juniper.. What would you do?

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Posted 5 years 4 months ago #53982
It seems that there is some movement in the "trunk" in the middle, but from this point of view it is looking rather straight.
I am not gonna write remove it, and I rather wait for how you will include it in the composition so it doesn´t stick out :)
And as to style you have chosen - well, why not a cascade? :D
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Posted 5 years 4 months ago #53989
Interesting...
As Mimo said, from this point of view you can see that there is some movement in what from the first pov seemed like a straigt boring branch. Nevertheless, even if i had known that i would never have turned this tree upside down. So, lesson learned, don't think too narrow, straight forward. Thanks for that!
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Posted 5 years 4 months ago #54028
THe middle trunk has indeed little movement on the picture. But I checked the tree and since taking the picture I had added a bit more movement, to better match the main trunk.
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Posted 4 years 11 months ago #57041
Spring has arrived. Took a decent picture of the tree last weekend.

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Posted 4 years 4 months ago #63301
Spend a good 3 hours on this tree today. Complete cleanup, deadwoodwork, wiring etc.

It now looks like this:

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Posted 4 years 4 months ago #63307
Quite beautiful, and the wiring is not bad too.
What I like most in this juniper is the styling, unusual and harmoniously designed. Congrats!!!
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Posted 4 years 4 months ago #63310
Thank you Clicio!

I know. The wiring is a bit sloppy. Had a few issues where I saw no other solution than to take a shortcut.

Guess I could have taken a bit more time. But this already took over 3 hours. At the end, I needed it to be done, as it was time to start prepping dinner!
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Posted 3 years 5 months ago #72903
Funny to see how I left the wire on the second largest trunk on too short. In summer that trunk straightened out again. Guess.. I can rewire the whole tree this winter. Or just sell the tree :)

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Posted 2 years 6 months ago #77674
An update of the tree today. Slowly the foliage is starting to stabilize.
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