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Japanese Trees 7

peter

By Peter


Japanese Trees 7

In the picture, you can see a bamboo pole tied beneath the top left branch. This method of training the branches is used on a lot of the trees, particularly to train a single long branch across an exntrance. You can see the one in this picture is just about to reach the gateway.



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Thanks for the explanation.
Very interesting technique.

5 Sep, 2008




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