cotinus

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Update slightly better picture and it starts its fal color display.
Its in this pot two years now but i might make a wooden box a bit bigger then this pot in spring because the development is a bit slow compared to preveous seasons if i look trough this thread.
I will hard prune it back to the primary branches in spring before it leafes out to force it to backbud again and grow movement/taper in the primary branches.
Its going to take time but i still believe at some day i will start refining the tree but a rough guess that will be 10 years from now haha

 

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I wired this one after the leaves dropped.
I noticed there was some deadwood hidden below the bark and some of the deadwood that was there from the start got a bit soft since ive let nature do its thing...
I used my dremel with a wirebrush to clean up the soft wood and a hand carving tool to seek the live edges.
One hole in the deadwood goes down in the trunk so i Will have to do some more carving to prevent it rot away the entire inside of the tree.

 

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Slightly better picture.