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Sensei-in-Training (Very)
Join Date: Jun-2006
Location: Baltimore
Country: USA
Posts: 497
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One thing I learned from doing my first forest and then having it evaluated was that I didn't place my trees close enough together. There usually should open space at the front, leading up to the forest, and I ended up with mine so spread out that there wasn't much open space there.
One thing that might help tracing the shape of the pot onto a piece of paper (a big piece of paper if it's a big pot) and then drawing circles to indicate where the trees trunks will go, big circles for big trunks, not so big circles for not so big trunks. Use a pencil and have an eraser standing by. ;-) With 23 trees there are a lot of possibilities, and you'll probably find it challenging to get it just right. I only had 9 trees for my first try and that was kind of rough.
Mostly, though, just try to enjoy the process. It's a lot of fun, even if sometimes a bit aggravating when you realize that your perfect vision ends up looking like an "X" marking the spot of some buried treasure in the forest...
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