This is how the tree started in 1985, as a European Larch seedling by it's previous owner.

It was then trained into a root-over rock arrangement some years later.

It was subsequently developed into an informal upright design.
The tree had developed a good trunk and nebari.
It was at this time that the ownership of the tree changed, and it was purchased by the present owner in 1998.

December 1998. The tree was repotted into a custom Dan Barton primitive pot, in Akadama.
The tree was carefully wired and pruned to further develop the image.