No. 19

Character

Reaching, varied, expressive

This tree starts vertical and stays close to it — but not quite. Along the upper half, the trunk curves so subtly that you almost miss it, drifting off-center until the crown is intentionally angled to one side. It is still an upright tree. It just refuses to be a rigid one. The branching reinforces that character. Where other trees in the collection carry their pads in even, measured tiers, this one is deliberately less uniform. The branches jut outward at varied angles — some reaching long, some held short, no two set at quite the same pitch. The effect is a tree that fills more space, that occupies the air around it with a randomness that feels closer to how a tree grows in nature than how one is typically shaped by hand. And that was the intention. This tree was meant to reach a bit more, to spread a bit wider while still holding its upright bearing. Eight feet of spread across nearly ten feet of height gives it generous proportions without losing the vertical line, and the varied branching ensures that every view offers a different composition — some angles open, some dense, the silhouette shifting as you move around it. It is a tree with personality. Less formal than some, more alive for it.