This tree, what appears to be a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), had been mechanically sheared for many years. This kept it appropriately small, but led to much interior dead and congested growth. I began working on it in September of 2014. The owner sees it right outside of her sliding glass door, and so it is prominent in her landscape.
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August, 2017
August, 2017
September 16, 2014.
September 16, 2014. This is the first time someone has pruned the tree from the inside. Sunlight now reaches parts of the beautiful red bark.
September 16, 2014. A shrub on a trunk.
September 16, 2014. The top is still large and undifferentiated, but one can now see some of tree's structure.
September 16, 2014.
September 16, 2014.