I’ve been nervous about this one ever since I potted it in August. It was already pretty weak, and maybe should have been given time to recover. But I had agreed to return the pot, so I rushed the planting. Which meant cutting off half the root mass. It looked great at the time.
Unfortunately, the tree reacted the way trees do when they lose most of their root mass. Which is to say; most of the leaves promptly died.
It’s a little muddled, so let’s take a close up.
Fortunately, trees want to live.
I’m glad it’s coming back. There’s a risk that much of the side branch mass is dead, and I won’t get any growth on it. I hope it keeps at least the main branches, in order to keep the sense of old tree.