cork bark elm

i bought this cork elm from meehan's in what i admit was a bit of an impulse buy (i will also admit i'm a relative beginner at bonsai). that said, i see a lot of potential in this because of the trunk. i 1) have two visions for that potential and 2) really don't want to accidentally kill this...

Hello Bonsainuts, this is what I did to my Cork bark elm today. I was getting lower branches dying before I knew that heavy top pruning was needed with these trees. I didn’t have a lot of lower branches left so I decided to re style the tree by heavy pruning and bending down the lowest branches...

Hello All. I bought this elm from a local bonsai meet yesterday. $25 USD is a pretty good deal. It has some interesting trunk movement, and I was thinking if I can train it into cascading style. Is it possible to train elm in cascading style? I did a search and didn't find any elm in...

Hello everyone! I have recently become extremely interested in bonsai growing, especially because I was always a fan of trees, but not as much with other plants. That said, I want to begin my very first bonsai, but I have several questions I have not found the answers to yet! Again, I have never...

Another little cork bark elm from a local nursery, budding up nicely 👌 Hopefully a nice shohin in the making!

This Ulmus was purchased last winter and looked like this: During the last year it was pruned (the top) and pretty much left alone (water and feed). It is quite a strong tree and sprouted all over. after leaves dropped: Today after some light cleaning and minor wiring: It will be...

Tree #3 from Brent at Evergreen Gardenworks and my favorite of the three. Really nice movement all the way up, decent size trunk and all. I'm torn on what I want to do with this guy. Obviously need to thicken the trunk significantly, but could use styling tips. Any thoughts? :)

Its budding well after its fall out of its pot, Here is a better image of it with a proper camera. Next plan is to plan what needs to go next spring :-)