Chinese Elm
Beautiful windswept.

Thanks for your kind words. I got this from Brussels when I lived in Memphis for a year, then moved to Taos, NM for three years where the climate killed or half killed many trees. This lost only part, fortunately, so when I next moved to the Puget Sound area for the last 15 years I made the most of the deadwood, and used Lignan style clip-and-grow styling for the most part after initial wiring in developing the foliage.

Before we moved to the Philippines to retrire three months ago, this was one of my trees that Dan Robinson asked to have donated to his Elandan Gardens collection, and subsequently he has planted it very attractively on a rugged rock - but I have no pictures of it since that change. I'm glad you appreciate its virtues and beauty - thank you.
 
Thanks for your kind words. I got this from Brussels when I lived in Memphis for a year, then moved to Taos, NM for three years where the climate killed or half killed many trees. This lost only part, fortunately, so when I next moved to the Puget Sound area for the last 15 years I made the most of the deadwood, and used Lignan style clip-and-grow styling for the most part after initial wiring in developing the foliage.

Before we moved to the Philippines to retrire three months ago, this was one of my trees that Dan Robinson asked to have donated to his Elandan Gardens collection, and subsequently he has planted it very attractively on a rugged rock - but I have no pictures of it since that change. I'm glad you appreciate its virtues and beauty - thank you.
It's wonderful that this tree was shaped by the hand of nature as much as by the hand of man. Very unique, and no wonder it got picked to be displayed at a collection.
 
I agree completely - and that's really what it's all about for someone like me from the "naturalistic" school of bonsai: whether shaped by nature, or shaped by "Man" as nature would/might have done it, the idea is to have a tree that looks like it was shaped by the quasi-predictable, but in the last analysis completely unpredictable, forces that nature imposes.

I think - as a proponant of this school - that you really "get it," and I'm glad that you do. Thanks for admiring the impact both I and "Nature" had on this tree!
 

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