Carl_Bergstrom

Walter,

Thanks for an incredibly interesting and informative series of posts.

I see your point - and I'll go out tomorrow and look with new eyes at a maple I have growing in my growing beds, so as to avoid the mistakes that you mention, even though where I am today, I'd be terribly proud to have a tree remotely similar to your last few images.

I think that's really the point - when I design my trees, I do it so that the end product in 10 years will be a tree that I would be proud to own today....but will they be good enough to satisfy me once they gets to that stage, a decade on down the road? After all, the tree is not the only one of us growing...

A question well worth asking.

All the best,
Carl

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