If you don't like perfect cookie cutter junipers, then don't look at this.

[Poink88]

A few weeks ago, a guest lecturer in my Urban Forestry class sited a survey that found a link between childhood environment and the preference towards the type of tree the person would tend to plant in their front yard. the correlations were pretty strong, and the basic idea was that people tend to show a bias for the types of trees that may have grown up under, in and around.

So people from the mountians showed a bias toward pines, folks from the east coast to deciduous hardwoods and folks from the west coast, redwoods, firs and the like.

I bet there is truth to that and explains why I love tropicals so much (I am Asian)...though winter maintenance is very taxing.

 

[Vance Wood]

The original trees is amazing, you will notice that very special trees get a break on the rule guidelines, its like they all agree that it is special and needs a little more room, just an observation.

I have said it many times before but it bears repeating: Very special trees make the rules, the rules don't make special trees. The "Rules" only reflect features that made past "special trees" special, and seek to define and emulate those features for future woks. Bach's special music defined the way we look at modern music and his theories are taught as the foundation of modern music.