First maple Forest

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First maple Forest

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There you go 3 years in the making with custom pot... what do you think?Image


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Look to get some taper in those trunks is my only advice. Great pot and the layout is quite good too I reckon. JM I think from the photo? Don’t mind a maple forest... keep showing your progress!
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Looking great, cant wait to see progress shots
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Hey PH,
Are you sure this is not maple masquerading as bamboo. Looks like a grove of bamboo culms. On a more serious note - I reckon you’ll love playing with a JM forest - from here you’ll start to put a body on the skeleton- and by that I mean starting to choose buds and branches that makes sense for each tree but more importantly for the over shape and context of the first and each sub-group within. At least that’s part of what I enjoy about developing young forests - rubbing off a bud here, letting a branch develop there.... quite relaxing. Enjoy and keep us updated.

That’s a cool looking pot too.


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Thank you thank you thank you!
Yes bamboo... not the first to say
Pot was commissioned last year from lovely talented Tracey @ Murrumbung Studio!


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