Florida - where snowbirds winter and tropical trees thrive. When my friend Elaine Graczyk lived there, she had a beautiful Ficus salicifolia which was particularly well suited to warm winters. But her favorite tree was the Japanese black pine, so shetried to train her ficus as a formal upright. Branches were wired and pulled down (Figure 1). But when the wire was removed, the tree rebelled at the idea of being shaped like a pine - and retaliated by sending its horizontal branches upward.
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