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Even though I think Arnie virtual is great I thought I'd put in another idea to how this tree could be styled.

1. What are the tree's strengths?
Great trunk, movement excellent, nice nebari, many options, reasonably small foliage.

2. What are its weaknesses?
Needs refinement. A few crossing branches. Unsure about the child. Wrong pot. The tree is shown in leaf. It would of been better to show flowering trees in flower. More spectacular that way.

3. How could the tree be improved?
Try and wire the crossing branches into different positions. I don't think I would keep the child but that would be decided when the tree flowers to see if the small child is worth keeping. Change pot to an oval glazed.

4. Does the tree have a message you could define in words?
To me this tree is all about what it would look like in flower. Unless a flowering tree has a spectacular feature, such as massive trunk, aged bark, then I think it should only be shown in flower. I have provided two virtuals where both have been tilted to the right a few degrees. One of the virtuals shows the tree with a full canopy which would look great when flowering and the other virtual I attempted to design an almost literati style tree. Both would look spectacular when in flower. Hard to choose which I'd prefer to see. The literati would be more unusual and with the deadwood would be more appealling to me.