In 2023 we began pruning on some badly neglected pine trees that had previously been pruned in a Japanese style—more or less—but then had been let go for a few years. We were hired to bring them up to the highest standard possible. Truthfully, they had never been pruned properly ever, although the trees had a decent skeletal structure with which to work. So for the past three years, it has been a matter of thinning and restructuring the entire secondary and tertiary branches each tree in a Japanese naturalistic or sukashi style and then re-establish branch layers or pads. Laboriously and tediously this has been accomplished over the past three years. Now it is a matter of letting the individual pads or layers fill in to give the trees a fuller and less airy look. Within the next two years or so, the fruits of our labors should really begin to pay off as the trees begin to come into their full glory—bonsai on steroids! To view Year One of this ongoing video series, go to    • Shore Pines Pruned in Japanese Style (Befo…   and    • Pruning Coast Pines in the Japanese Sukash…  . To view Year Two of this ongoing video series, go to    • Fall Japanese Sukashi Style Pine Tree Prun…