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Actually addons farmer not cutting trees2/17/2023 ![]() ![]() He could control the rate of growth, slowing it down or speeding it up to blend his designs to perfection. Erlandson claimed to be divinely inspired and spent over 40 years of his life shaping and grafting the bodies and arms of trees. Straight tree trunks and branches were carefully bent, rather than cut, and became complex and compound designs in shapes like hearts, lightning bolts, basket weaves and rings. His intricate grafting techniques resulted in woven wonders made from threads of living wood. Inspired by observing a natural graft between two trees, he began to shape his trees. The “Four-Legged Giant”, four Sycamore saplings grafted into a 6 foot square cupola, was his first major project. This botanical adventure began in Hilmar, CA a little before Axel’s daughter, Wilma, was born in 1928. If he had continued with this line of work, the Circus Trees may have never existed. Erlandson taught himself land surveying, among other skills. During his early years he grew up in Minnesota but by age 17 his family had moved to the Hilmar Colony near Turlock, CA. ![]() ![]() The Circus Trees were originally grown and created by Axel Erlandson, born in 1884 to Swedish parents. ![]()
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