For Christmas tree farmers, wary of competition from tinsel types, the answer is to produce a perfectly shaped natural tree that carries a quality assurance guarantee.

There are various methods to achieving a shaped tree.

And if it develops into an oddly shaped tree?

The shaped trees now shared space with other items such as scrolls, incense burners, Buddhist statues and tea ceremony implements.

Bonsai aesthetics are the aesthetic goals characterizing the Japanese tradition of growing an artistically shaped miniature tree in a container.

First, the wood had been cleared, leaving only the most beautifully shaped trees.

The front yard, like every other front yard in Rosloviggen, held a neatly manicured garden of small, flowering shrubs and perfectly shaped trees.

Or a peculiarly shaped tree becomes associated with a cure for disease.

These distinctively shaped trees have been photographed and documented in the Great Lakes Region by scientists and historians since the early 1800s.

When grown with single trunks they form taller more pyramidal shaped trees, when having multiple trunks plants tend to grow shorter and spread out wider.