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This one will be more representative of the trees I see along the creeks when fishing. Their roots are often surrounding large rounded rocks.

I take it back... I went looking for photos and found a few. Here's one for motivation:

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One wonders how that birch started up there. Perhaps there is a pocket of soil that it got established in and slowly extended roots over the sides and down to the ground.
 

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I take it back... I went looking for photos and found a few. Here's one for motivation:

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One wonders how that birch started up there. Perhaps there is a pocket of soil that it got established in and slowly extended roots over the sides and down to the ground.

Not sure in that case but what I see often looks like a rock that used to be buried at the edge of a creek bank and soil was slowly eroded over time, exposing tree roots that have grown around it.
 

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Hell yeah. I drive a Silverado, drink American beer, fish with American made fly rods and catch native American fish too.







I was getting ready to say that most of my trees are American (besides the Chinese Elms) but then I remembered the Tridents, and the Azaleas, and the Crape Myrtles, and the procumbens, and the mugos and the Scotts. Dammit, I guess most of my trees are foreigners.
I have almost the exact same truck! Same color and everything- LOL
 

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Love that truck! I just got mine back on Friday. It's been in the body shop for 2 weeks after I was rear ended coming home from work one day.

Here's a quick update on my water elm after a haircut and taking the wire off. It was starting to get out of contol. Zach says they grow best in the heat of summer so I'm sure it will need to be pruned again a few times.

 

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Since photobucket suck diddly ucks and all my pics are gone from the thread, here's a dog days of summer update on my elms. I've added a nice thick layer of moss to all my trees. They get watered at 6am and 6pm and this seems to help on these days when it's in the upper 90s.

First up is the American. Growing well.

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Next is my little Chinese Elm. It's coming along I think. It got black spot again this year so I defoliated and put the bonide granules on it. The new leaves came back fine - and smaller.

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I really like this one...that pot is killer!
My little elm got blackspot this year too...
 

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This is my twin trunk Chinese Elm that came from New England Bonsai Gardens last year. It blew off the bench this spring, landed on a concrete srep stone and broke the big trunk. I cut it off and got a bud at the cut site. I'm planning to keep it a twin trunk but with the old smaller one as the bigger one.

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And I just put this together a couple days ago to see if water elm could handle summer root work. They definitely grow like crazy in the heat of summer so I figured it was worth a try. So far so good. These are all cuttings I struck from the tree above last year.

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I took my water elm in to the Richmond club meeting a few months ago. The meeting was about wiring and this one needed some wire. While I was working, the club president mentioned that I should put this one in the next show that the club does. Cool! I've never showed a tree before. Accept to you folks here at B-Nut. Anyway, here is the winter image.

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And growing some leaves this spring.

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I took my water elm in to the Richmond club meeting a few months ago. The meeting was about wiring and this one needed some wire. While I was working, the club president mentioned that I should put this one in the next show that the club does. Cool! I've never showed a tree before. Accept to you folks here at B-Nut. Anyway, here is the winter image.

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And growing some leaves this spring.

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Hell yeah man!
Always good to get a compliment like that!
 

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Last fall, I paid a visit to the Bonsai collection at the NC Arboretum in Asheville and came away inspired by the various landscapes. At the same time, I had been playing around with this penjing thing with hokkaido elms that was inspired by an old @grouper52 post. I also had a larger chinese elm that was orignally a much bigger twin trunk - but the bigger trunk was broken off in wind storm last spring when my elm became a flying projectile. So, in a moment of inspiration, I decided to combine the 2 and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I think there is still some work to do with the layout of the rocks and maybe some low growing accent plants and I would love some thoughts on how you think this could be improved.

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Last fall, I paid a visit to the Bonsai collection at the NC Arboretum in Asheville and came away inspired by the various landscapes. At the same time, I had been playing around with this penjing thing with hokkaido elms that was inspired by an old @grouper52 post.

Glad I inspired such nice work on your part, and the whole collection and it's elm theme is very nice!

Here are the images that I think May have inspired you:

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Where is Maidens, Virginia? I grew up on the Northern side of the Mason-Dixon line mostly, in Kensington, Maryland, but my mom was from Caldwell and Calhoun stock from the Norfolk area, and I spent six summers working at the Goshen Scout Camps near Lexington, and later a year there for my Rat Year at VMI. Didn't want to marry a rich upperclassman's sister, as I was being groomed/pressured to do, so I dropped out, joined the Navy as a Corpsman, and settled out West most of the rest of my days - but Virginia has always seemed to be where my heart was. I could just Google "Maiden" to answer my question, but I'd like to hear you tell me about it if you don't mind .. I recently retired overseas to my wife's homeland in the Philippines, and miss the States more than you can know.
 
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