May 2008.
View of the front of the tree taken in the middle of the month. The new buds have broken and the new shoots are starting to emerge.

On the left is a detailed view of the right hand lower apex of the tree, and on the right is a view of the apex of the main part of the tree.

Detailed view of the newly emerging shoots. In more dominant areas of the tree some of these tips were finger pinched back.