"Reiner Goebel" wrote in message
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"Bart Thomas" wrote:

Inspired by a photo of Reiner's last fall, I went out and bought a
Euonymus
'compacta' ( My personal choice with this bush is grow and clip.

So is mine. I would start training the branches this spring. Since you
have adequate trunk diameter, you can concentrate on branching and
ramification. Be aware that once you prune a branch, you will not get
further extensions this growing season. At least I don't up here.

Can I treat this like a maple and cut everything off the trunk? When?

You could at the time the plant resumes growth, which should be right
about now, but I would only do that as a last resort, preferring instead
to make something of the plant with the branches it has.

Thanks, Reiner.

I took the tree to a workshop at Chase Rosade's just to be safe about the
degree of root reduction, and because I didn't have a narrow enough saw to
cut off what amounted to a tree within the tree growing out of the middle of
the first fork on the trunk.

He was most enthusiastic about the tree, even saying that he really should
do a class on them.

Bart Thomas