JLDoggett

Here are the "before" and "after" picture for the 4 entries in this years contest. Each is in its own post, in the order of the poll.

The Poll will be open for 14 days. Good Luck to all!

Please, No comments until after the poll is closed. Thank you!

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2009-contest-01-Koren Boxwood:

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	2009-contest-01-Koren Boxwood.JPG (42.1 KB, 27 views)
	2009-contest-01-Koren Boxwood After.jpg (36.4 KB, 41 views)

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2009-contest-02-Cedrus Leban:

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	2009-contest-02-Cedrus Lebani.JPG (33.3 KB, 20 views)
	2009-contest-02-Cedrus Lebani After.JPG (49.9 KB, 37 views)

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2009-contest-03-Azalea:

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	2009-contest-03-Azalea.jpg (40.3 KB, 20 views)
	2009-contest-03-Azalea-After.jpg (39.5 KB, 32 views)

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"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these"

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JLDoggett

2009-contest-04-Taxus:

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	2009-contest-04-Taxus.jpg (96.7 KB, 25 views)
	2009-contest-04-Taxus After.jpg (95.2 KB, 47 views)

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"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these"

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JLDoggett

Congrats Treebeard55 winner of the 2nd annual Spring Styling Contest!!!

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Mattbonsai

Congratulations Treebeard! A well deserved win, thats one heck of a transformation.

-Matt-

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treebeard55

Thanks, Jim and Matt. And thanks to any and all who voted for this tree.

There's a bit of a story here. My 8-year-old daughter, who's registered here as nmoor1, was with me at Lowe's as I browsed for a tree for this contest. She also -- and independently -- thought this tree was the best candidate we looked at on the sales bench. She already has an artist's eye, if her dad does say so himself..

She wasn't able to help with the styling: she had already left to spend the summer in Washington state with her mom, who's serving as a camp nurse until early August.

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Treebeard 55

The most important bonsai tool is your brain.

Ml_work

Congratulations Treebeard!
You did a good job on the tree. Most important is it was a joint project with your daughter. Make those memories!
I don't want to take up your space here but I have to tell, I am the Boxwood with 0 votes.... I had been watching that tree at WM for a couple of months before the purchase entry date. When it was still there at entry time I figured it was meant to be. The whole time I had it pictured as a "broom" style tree. About the time I got it I had seen a picture of a boxwood cut back like a tree style. So I cut away and when I was finished ...I started laughing...showed my wife...she laughed. But not to give up I entered anyway. I showed her the results of the votes and we both laughed again. I will continue to work with it and see what happens.

Keep LOOkin Up!
Michael

Mattbonsai

Great idea Treebeard, I hope my children in the future will be as tree obsessed as me.

As with the confessions, I confess that my tree was the Cedrus, I've always wanted this species of tree, and when I finally had a chance to buy one I was more than happy to oblige! I was greatly surprised when it got 4 votes, I think thats the highest vote any of my trees have ever had in styling contests and BOTM, so thanks to all who voted for it!

Hopefully next year more people will enter the contest, and be willing to spend the time to vote, I refuse to believe that of all the members of the site only 16 visited in 14 days.

-Matt-

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