I am interested in suggestions for styling this ponderosa. It was collected June 2018. The first picture is what I see as the front. The root mass does extend to the left of the trunk and pretty much fills the pot.
The branch that extends up and to the left takes off of the downward trunk. See the second picture. Originally I was thinking of removing this branch and leaving the foliage mass inside the curve of the truck. Now I am thinking of taking it off after the second side branch, second picture because I like the sharp angle.
The third picture gives a different view from the back.
Comments appreciated.
I don't have a nice illustration, but I wonder if there isn't a middle ground rotating the tree between photo 1 and 2 to get some movement from both angles..... and tilting the tree even further to lean the trunk out to the left.
I think you could still remove that long ungainly branch, but then perhaps bring the smaller branches and foliage back more towards the trunk to the right, rather than out and away.
A nice lacerock with some heft to it to balance how far you could lean the tree out from it could be fun to plant it in someday.
I thought of grafting too, but I don't have experience with it either. If you were feeling brave, grafting as a club demo/experience/meeting could be pretty awesome and powerful.
I like your tree. :)