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tall having already been reduced in height by half at the Garden Centre.
The trunkbase is approximately 1.5"/3.5cm thick and looks very thin when
compared to the rest of the tree. Ideally to make the trunk look appropriate for a
bonsai, I will need to aim for a finished tree height of between 6 and 10 times the

diameter of the trunk. As Euonymous is naturally quite a thin-trunked tree in the
wild, I will aim for a height 10 times the diameter of the trunk; in this case 15"
or 37cm.
So I start pruning; I need to reduce this tree down to a little less than the final
height (this will allow room for me to grow a new canopy/apex in the future)

By the time I have reduced the tree's height down to 12"/29cm there is not much
left. Notice that I have also chosen trunklines that taper as much as possible so
that the trunklines are as thin near the top.