With the addition of my brand spankin new 4.5 mm wire, I added some curve to my Texas ebony! This is temporarily hideous, only because I now have a more constructed future ahead of it.

I had thought about trying to chase down to foliage, but there doesn’t seem to be any pushing downward. I am thinking I will air layer this bad boy in half. In case I haven’t written about it yet, air layering is essentially where you force roots to grow along a trunkline that can them be transplanted. It would take a whole post to explain. Just imagine, chop, two trunks. By wiring it like this, I would add curve to both trunks. Sometimes you need temporary ugliness for a longer term plan.