Tonight on Mirai Live, we return to an iconic Sierra Juniper for a closer look at apical formation, design continuity, and styling a tree to reflect its environment and container. Last week we built the structure of the tree--this week is about refining that design to reflect and respond to its avant-garde container. Build your skills in creating environmental influence, and dive deep with us into the discussion of using branch pads and ramification to tease out the natural and environmental characteristics of a tree. Grow your understanding of carrying design cohesion from the basic structure all the way to the finest branches of the tree. Join us to begin the autumn dive into apical formation, and learn to reinforce and inform the viewer’s impression of the environment that creates a tree. Tonight, 6pm PDT, live.bonsaimirai.com. See it in the archive Thursday.