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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Posts: 3,348
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Mike,
Its always great to find potential bonsai material for free and bring it back to life. Good job making the tree healthy. Providing photos of all angle of the tree gave me a good view of the branch structure.
Please remember that this is my personal opinion. In terms of styling the tree I personally believe you have too many main branches or trunks. From the angles pictured I find the branch towards the front, pointing to the viewer, detracts from the rest of the tree. I would remove this. Now you have two main trunks. The lowest trunk that moves horizontally adjacent to the pot forks into three branches at the end. The middle branch in the fork you have jinned which is good. The top branch in the fork is very heavy and moves almost at right angles to the main branch. To me it detracts from the flow and movement of the trunk. I would jin this too.
Sorry about the crudeness of the virtual but I just wanted to show you the outline of what I would do to your tree and how I would develop it. You are left with two main trunks in a semi-cascade form. I have jinned the two fork branches and now you can see the better flow and movement of you tree. I couldn't find a moon crescent pot to use in the virtual so just used a semi-cascade pot.
With your tree I believe in "less" is "more" in terms of trunks and thick branches. Again please remember this is just my opnion.
David
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