That's a nice one Leo, but is it deciduous?
LOL, I get your point about style, but keep in mind, it is only about 12 months from being purchased from a landscape nursery. It will change dramatically, after I put it into an Anderson flat and get it settled. Next update 2019 or 2020, not a rush project.
Also I intend to style it somewhat reminiscent of Thuja I've seen around here locally and in Michigan. They do not look like pines, nor do they look like C. nootkatensis. Around here they tend to do a ''candelabra style'', which is somewhat unique to the T. occidentalis species. Not sure where I'll take it. Most of the jins where just branches that were obviously not needed, rather than being specific design elements. Right now it still looks like a landscape shrub in the back yard. It is a longer term project.
@yenling83 &
@Dorky_gearhead - I have some seedling burr oaks, 3 of them, now finishing their 4th growing season. My thought was in the cold northern Midwest, burr oaks are perfect because they are very, very cold hardy. They have a very coarse bark once they finally become mature enough to bark up. Allegedly they grow quickly (for an oak) - though my seedlings have not grown very fast, all still straight sticks, pencil thin about 3 feet tall. Leaves are big, but should eventually reduce with ramification. Upside, I have done nothing to shelter them for winter, and have had zero die back after several winters with -17 F temps (about -27 C). They sit out in the middle of the yard all winter. No problem. They should be hardy to -30 F, (roughly -35 C) if you start with seed collected from the northern half of its range. I have never found a burr oak larger than a small seedling that was in a collectable condition. All wild ones I found tend to have very deep tap roots. I removed the tap roots of my seedlings, and now this summer I'll prune roots again when I move them to larger grow out pots. I am not putting them in the ground, because I fear the roots will make it impossible to dig them later. So for Yenling, I'm doing the slow, controlled growth, it will be decades before they are presentable. But there is no rush, a back of the bench project for me. Here is my favorite burr oak, it is in Missouri, near Columbus.
