Last year I wrote a newsletter all about the Winter Silhouette. It is impossible to talk about the winter silhouette without talking about the aesthetic pruning concept of Coarse to Fine. “Coarse to fine begins where the trunk emerges from the earth and flows up through the tree to the fine tips ...

As a child of Montana, I grew up with plenty of winter experiences, but I had not heard of Winter Silhouette until I moved to Oakland California in my 20’s. I believe it hails from the world of Bonsai but my aesthetic pruning teachers also used it for trees in the landscape. Living in a Mediterra...