A gale is blowing outside on our Northumberland hilltop but our WN is nestling in its new much larger pot underneath a high bank. The garden also contains five sorts of Redwood, including Metasequoia glyptostroboides, S. gigantea, S. sempervirens and two prostrate varieties. The WN's polar cap has expanded since arrival and I have been struck by the marked resinous accretions at the top of the main trunk. An oddity that I am at a bit of a loss to explain is the angle of the different generations of branches. The first year's branches are at about thirty degrees to the trunk, the second year's at about seventy degrees and this year's have a pronounced bow, almost a pendulous habit - three very disinct postures. Anyone else got a confused tree? Steve Ford