Thuja with one 'branch'

Todaj I want to show you my thuja - thuja smargd. I got it in 2006 in a common tree nursery, near my home. It vas nothing special. An ordinarily grown tree.


The moment I brought it home I shortened it from 2,5 meters to a bit more then one meter.


The next step was done in summer 2007 when I made some shari on the trunk and made the basic branch selection. All the other branches were cut off.


'Sadly' not everything went as it should, and the whole tree but one branch had died. So, I could not do els as to carve the trunk and try to figure out another design. Slowely I realized that this style will be much better. That was in 2008.


In the next year - 2009 - I repotted it into this top japaneese pot, which is probably the final one and made some refinement work on the shari with some help of Enrico Savini.


Over the year I let it grow freely to have as much fine branches when I will style the crown.


This year (2010) the time of styling finally came. The main problem vas the trunk (a branch once), because it wasn't bent enough.
I didn't want to risk braking it, so I used a different methood. Firstly I holowed the part of the trunk that I wanted to bend. Then I put some thick aluminium wire into the hollow, straped it into rafia and plastic tape and bend it.
All it had to be done next was wiring.



And here I am prowdly showing you my finished tree. When the crown gets denser, it will be a prize-winning tree.