how many of us actually have as much trees as Walter does?!!!! i think if you wanted to implement his style of hedge pruning say 20 to 30 trees, two or three times a season and at the end of the season, editing all the faults or bits you dont like, you will produce top quality trees very quickly.
likewise, if you go with the clip and grow method, going over every branch with a fine tooth comb, wiring here n there.....lest not forget that with the hedge method branches are also wired and manipulated! .....you will also produce top quality trees!
sometimes the level of ramification once can produce also depends on what species we are working with. some of the Zelkova and Hackberries are capable of producing ULTRA FINE ramification maybe quicker than say Beech or Hornbeam, the latter will produce dense ramification but some of the Hackberry coming out of places like Taiwan get this ULTRA FINE twigging that looks even too much at times. depending on tastes i guess. i love Hackberry though, i know what they're capable of, so i bought one for myself earlier in the season!
was it John naka that said we want to produce trees where the birds can fly through, well some of these ultra ramified trees appear to be so DENSE that birds would fly in and get trapped, stuck!
Nice to look at but for me personally a bit too dense. someone compared the famous WP maple to another tree i think it was a Trident raft/forest, to me it looks photoshopped.
while Walters tree looks like a tree i would come across in the woods or park/forest. i know which one i would rather have on my bench and i know which one i would probably sell. buts thats just my 2 cents
