Just showing one of my Chinese Elms.
Field grown, two years in a Poly container to develop some branches and into bonsai container 18 months ago. Not crazy about the container, but will do for now.
Near the top of the shorter tree, I have to make a decision about tree branches which are very close together. Other than that, I'm spending my time building the branches and working on taper.
Chinese Elm
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Re: Chinese Elm
Interesting Tree Gerald.
Won't take much to lift this one to the next level.
Bit of definition to branches on the left hand trunk will assist IMO.
P.S. The background you are using for these photo's is a bit confusing.
Something a little flatter will pay dividends
Won't take much to lift this one to the next level.
Bit of definition to branches on the left hand trunk will assist IMO.
P.S. The background you are using for these photo's is a bit confusing.
Something a little flatter will pay dividends
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful
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Re: Chinese Elm
Thanks BOICS
Yip. After taking the photos, I realised that the very bright sun and the uneven background was not a great combination. I figured that the photos I take for the progression photos in the future will be better and the tree will look so muchh more improved. These photos are not great.
The tree is interesting. I need to remove one of the roots which curves over another. I may well just try and seperate them and retain both for the nebari. The root mass has however fused as one tree.
What I normally do with the branches is to take my time to develop them. Rather develop them slowly, but accurately, than to struggle later on. The thickness of the branches and flair is not what I want yet, but given a few years they will be. What I also tend to do is a bit of a 'hedge technique', just to get ramification. Once a year I clean out the 'hedge' and give the branches definition. It means I cut away some of the ramification, but it leaves me with more branches than I need anyway.
I'm thinking that in 3-5 years this is going to be a great tree. The container does however not impress me. All in good time.
Yip. After taking the photos, I realised that the very bright sun and the uneven background was not a great combination. I figured that the photos I take for the progression photos in the future will be better and the tree will look so muchh more improved. These photos are not great.
The tree is interesting. I need to remove one of the roots which curves over another. I may well just try and seperate them and retain both for the nebari. The root mass has however fused as one tree.
What I normally do with the branches is to take my time to develop them. Rather develop them slowly, but accurately, than to struggle later on. The thickness of the branches and flair is not what I want yet, but given a few years they will be. What I also tend to do is a bit of a 'hedge technique', just to get ramification. Once a year I clean out the 'hedge' and give the branches definition. It means I cut away some of the ramification, but it leaves me with more branches than I need anyway.
I'm thinking that in 3-5 years this is going to be a great tree. The container does however not impress me. All in good time.
