The plant is pruned and unnecessary branches are removed. This helps with the recovery by not having as much green to transpire during its recovery period. The day comes to an end and everyone is tired and needs to be off the property by 1:00PM or risk being locked in. We all meet at the gate and eat lunch, make new friends, and check out what everybody has dug. The stories are passed around and each story gets bigger and bigger, just like a good fishing story. This is by far the best part of the day. While watching Ken Teh remove his juniper, I notice they are watching Doyle Saito across the canyon while he tries to unearth a monster. This tree must be at least 7 feet tall. This is the highest zoom setting on my camera, and he was about 250 yards away while digging this. I think the picture came out pretty good. The other photo shows Doyle carrying out the monster over his shoulder,
Paul Bunyon Style, and addressing the roots at a later time. I did help him out with extra moss I had left over and we got the tree secure for his trip home. I ran into
Maria Kapra and his charge for the day. This juniper has very unique twisting arm that will be very interesting during the styling phase. I hope Kapra keeps us posted with his future results on this juniper.