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Tomas J: Here is my openion of your maple group. The first item is the number of trees, I think that there are four as I can just bairly make out one in the back of the arangement. You may think of adding a tree or deleating a tree to achieve an odd number of trees. The next thing that I see is that all of the trees are the same hight. One tree croses the main tree and the second tree has an angle into the group. If you cut the crosser to be the shortest tree it would not cross the main tree and you could regrow a new crown and if you cut the second tree at the point that it angles into the group you could redirect it outward and re grow a new shorter crown. Now the three main trees would be of diffrent hights and you have kept the close trunks that are desirable and eliminated the two main problems that I see which were the fact that all of the trees are the same hight and the one tree croses the main tree. The thing to remember about forrest araingments is this trunk arangement is most importiant after rootage because it is most difficult to change, in maples branches and crowns can be placed and created any where you want them to be and can be removed and regrown at the artests will. I hope that this gives you some new angles to think about.
ripsgreentree

13-Apr-2002	#7
ripsgreentree bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Sep-2001 Location: Fresno, CA Country: U.S.A USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,260	Re: Trident Maple - Group Tomas J: Here is my openion of your maple group. The first item is the number of trees, I think that there are four as I can just bairly make out one in the back of the arangement. You may think of adding a tree or deleating a tree to achieve an odd number of trees. The next thing that I see is that all of the trees are the same hight. One tree croses the main tree and the second tree has an angle into the group. If you cut the crosser to be the shortest tree it would not cross the main tree and you could regrow a new crown and if you cut the second tree at the point that it angles into the group you could redirect it outward and re grow a new shorter crown. Now the three main trees would be of diffrent hights and you have kept the close trunks that are desirable and eliminated the two main problems that I see which were the fact that all of the trees are the same hight and the one tree croses the main tree. The thing to remember about forrest araingments is this trunk arangement is most importiant after rootage because it is most difficult to change, in maples branches and crowns can be placed and created any where you want them to be and can be removed and regrown at the artests will. I hope that this gives you some new angles to think about. ripsgreentree __________________ ripsgreentree It requires an open hand to give and to recieve.