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I like it! I live here in utah and see those everywhere. I just don't have enough room for them... I wish you the best of luck with it.

Sorry to hear of his passing...

Today I got permission to collect these smoke bush seedlings from my kids' school.

https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-odnr/wildlife/documents-publications/hunting-area-maps You can browse around the DNR website to checkout what the regulations are for collecting on public land on your area as well as maps, etc.

I would go with the first option, but also chop it back really hard in late winter/ early next spring. Be very brave, and chop it approximately to the yellow area and you will get new growth popping where the green leaf shape is drawn. This will give you some good movement in your lower trunk...

Those are some gnarly trunks to start with! Good luck with them!

My temperate trees all stay outside all year in a corner of my yard that is pretty protected from wind and weather. Pretty much everything I have is tough as nails so I don't worry too much about them. I have a Ficus benjamina that comes into the dining room window and a lemon tree that...

Here's the tree potted up in a large flower planter to recover. Dr. Pepper for scale.

I've edited the original post a little. There are two elm trees there and i wanted to make sure I was documenting the right one. I will add more to the story later showing how it is potted and cleaned up. It's pretty nice.

Thanks to Google Street View's option to go back and see the same spot from years ago, we have the chance to see this tree progress from almost the beginning of it's existence until I collected it last Wednesday. 2007- Right next to the red bush under the Stop sign is a brownish shrub. Behind...

Here's a male black widow i saw yesterday going after a wasp that got caught in a web. It was near the faucet for my tree-watering hose. You can tell it's a male, because the female black widows have a much bigger badonkadonk, lol...

Eww! Do you have any chickens to feed him to?

Thanks for the update!

Hey, I'm sorry to say this one didn't make it. I got divorced not long after that time, and this tree was one of the casualties of that segment of my life. I'd like to find another one now that things are much more stable.

Worked on this juniper today.

I don't know, but you can tell by the patina on that sticker it must be very old....😉

@Oddly_Aude So when you said, "Send help!" in your other post, you really meant it, huh!?? Those ficus were really trying to get you weren't they? Lol

I recovered a bunch of wire from the motor of our garbage disposal which chewed up its last spoon awhile back. The wire is pretty thin, so it will be used only for guy wiring and the thinnest of branches. I still need to anneal it too.

Youcould try this... https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/234/Plant-a-Tree#:~:text=The%20Urban%20Forestry%20Division%20accepts,be%20planted%20the%20following%20year. Or try the Arbor Day Foundation, you can get 10 tree seedlings for a donation. https://www.arborday.org/membership Or go to the local...

How many years are you willing to invest into creating a bonsai out of this?

I noticed that the other day too..

I went back to the beginning of this thread to see how far this tree has come.. it is truly unrecognizable!! Wow! What an amazing transformation! Proof of what can be done with plain piece of nursery stock if you are willing to be bold, (and patient!) Cant wait to see how it progresses in the...

I collected some Zelkova serrata seeds and little-leaf Linden seeds this morning.

Wow! I love it!

Thank you everyone! 😊