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He collected the tree in spring 2001, styled
and cultivated it for many years. (1 & 2)
Recently one of my friends proposed we
exchange trees. To my pleasant surprise,
he had since purchased this very tree, and
by exchanging one of my trees for it, this
pine became part of my collection. (3 & 4).
The mugo was given the freedom to grow
in my garden and not pruned so it would
be full of vigor and ready for a new design.
In the following spring, I repotted the
pine in a tokoname pot changing the tree’s
inclination to emphasize the movement of
the long branch that until then was paral-
lel to the rim of the pot, and in my opin-
ion, didn’t express the dramatic power of
the material. (5).

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