Thank you for your confidence! I'd love to see a picture of your tree - can you post one to the gallery of this forum and then leave a note here so we'll know to look at it, or else use Photobucket or another similar program to put it into this thread? If not, depending on how integral that branch is to the rest of your style, consider removing it, trying to retrain it with wire or weights depending on whether it seems feasible and keeping in mind it could be brittle, requiring special care (wrapping the branch with damp raffia first), or else possibly even seeing it as a novelty and training the rest of the tree to 'go' with it (a la Nick Lenz's creations... Google him to see some amazing trees). You say it isn't necessarily a turn-off to you, so if you like it, who cares whether it's traditional or not, as long as you think you can make something of it that's true to itself, rather than just having it as one odd branch? But without seeing it, it's really hard to comment meaningfully!

Lucy:

Thanks! You are absolutely right about the visual need. I will wait for Spring and new growth before I post a picture. In all honesty I will probably wait until next fall to decide on the fate of my swirling boug anyway! No hurry. That's what's great about this art!