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Originally Posted by BunjinEnt

Judging strickly from what i saw on the link you posted, seems the base of the clump is relatively tighter than what you have here. Is that part of the progression of the styling as the tree(s) grow out?

Gday Wm and Antonio!

In retrospect, I could have placed the trunks much closer together, or even bound them directly to each other, but the effect I was wishing to achieve - whether I knew it at the time or not - was that of the 'Mallee ring' that Dr Hnatiuk mentions at the end of his article. While I have seen numerous Eucs with multiple trunks which emerge from a single point at the soil's surface, I have a general aesthetic aversion to recreating this natural occurrence: please excuse me while I go off on a design-based tangent...

Refer to the attached diagrams: in each case, the silhouettes are presented 'as is' (on the left), and with the 5 trunks brought much closer together (on the right). In the 2nd diagram, I have removed some of the virtual soil, as is likely to happen sometime down the track with this planting.

Note the way in which the left-hand images appear much better 'grounded', and present the viewer with some sense of visual depth. The right-hand images, by virtue of the single point of trunk emergence/convergence (SPOTEC?), present as less stable. Furthermore, in conjunction with the line of the soil, this SPOTEC creates a visual node, from which the eye has difficulty escaping. (I believe this problem to be compunded in the 2nd image where the soil-line is angled: the end result holds about as much interest and flow as an oversized asterisk.)

Sorry for all the jargon and made up acronyms, but it's still very early DownUnda, and I think I need another coffee...

Thanks.

Fly.

PS: Viewing this planting in silhouette merely serves to reiterate the statement in my original post that I need to rearrange the trunks in relation to each other, but that's another post entirely...