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his particular bonsai is about 30 years old and although it has A new, deeper pot was chosen to allow the tree to keep most of its
won some awards in Australia, I believe that all trees should root ball intact but still be tilted slightly to the right.
Tbe looked at closely every so often to see if the tree can be im-
proved. It is unlikely that a tree you styled early in your bonsai
career will not need some restyling to bring out the best in the tree.
I believe that it now needs a much less formal look to it and more
movement will be given to it by tilting it to the right, shortening the
branches on the left and growing the branches on the right.

This tree has fattened while in the pot with the use of many low,
heavy branches that in effect acted as part of the design and as
sacrifice branches. A number of branches were removed about 5
years ago and it is now time to go further and add some movement
to the tree.

Pot selected for new styling

Lifted out of existing pot Very fine roots

Solid root mass Roots teased out a little
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