Lesley

I missed Thursday's tree because I took too long to post. Here's my assessment of Friday's tree. I wait to look at the other member's opinions until I've added mine so I can use this as a learning tool. This pine is an informal upright. The trunk taper is nice and the bark is rugged and textured. The trunk is vertical and slanted. The branches are static and the middle branches are too thick I would remove the thickest. I would wire some branches down to suggest age.There is a negative space on the left that makes the foliage/canopy shape irregular. It can be assumed that it is triangular but the branches need work to achieve this. Shorten the length of upper branches (step downward) if they are removed d/t thichness this might also accomplish the shaping change. The pot color is good for this masculine tree but even though it has the angularity for a masculine tree, the hexagon pot is too small and I feel that a rectangular pot with the tree offset to the right would be a better choice. This pine has great potential!

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