No, not really purposeful. The branching has just naturally gotten longer all around over the last few years. I was looking at the progression and thinking that it probably needs to be compacted again.Lovely subtle tree. Removing the long root in the foreground seems like a good choice to me. The nebari seems less youthful this way, somehow.
Are you purposefully keeping the right side branches long? It seems to conflict with the leftward movement of the trunk to my eye
Beautiful! Are you in Goochland? Looks like you have some awesome trees. I’m right in Powhatan, I would love to come see your trees sometimeI snapped off a branch on the left side of this one yesterday while trying to wire it into a better position. And then snapped off another trying to compensate for that one. Those branches can be pretty brittle. It will leave a hole in the canopy next year but the tree should grow something new that I can work with. I see a few more areas that need to be cleaned up looking at this pic too.
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That would be great! I’m about 10 or so minutes from Maidens landing, right at 60 and 522. Thanks for the reply!Hey there. Yep. I'm just across the bridge in Maidens, near the boy scout camp. We should do that in the spring.