Humidified!!!

After the drying out scare I decided to try and help the survival of the tree by :-

1. checking the soil to make sure it's not dried out
2. regular branch checks to remove dead branches
3. I made a humidification tray

So how did I do it? I took one catering plastic tray, I half filled it with large-ish fishtank gravel I had laying around added water to the level of the gravel then placed the tree on it's tray on top of the gravel.

You can't see from the images but there is a lot of new buds appearing on the tree which is a good sign  of life, and there has been some major hacking of dead branches to help promote growth.