4 hoursLooking good Vin...seems to be going in the right direction for your vision. How many years past from the lower photo to the current one?
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Thanks! Hmmmm, now let's see it without "leaves"Nice feel to it. I like it!
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It is a rule breaker but it's going to stay for now. If the branch above it inspires me one day, I may lose it then. The top half of the tree still needs work but it's getting there. Thanks for the input.Just my 2 cents, but I would be inclined to loose the lowest branch. Not because it breaks "the rule" but because I would opt to develop the next branch up on the left as the counter.
With or without, excellent tree!
It is a rule breaker but it's going to stay for now. If the branch above it inspires me one day, I may lose it then. The top half of the tree still needs work but it's getting there. Thanks for the input.
I think you're talking about this area:Why don't you take off that up jutter on that heavy mid high left branch?
Seems a bit large anyway....
I don't know about both low branches....
But the first one can go. Or not.
Now...in a few years....4hrs × 100 elms =
"You are so screwed!"
Sorce
You may be surprised in a few years.I'll never see them as bonsai but maybe someone else will someday.
Wire won't make it grow any longer and that's what it needs
I agree that your image is more like what the rules say bonsai should be and I've done virts like this of the tree as well. However, I am very stubborn and don't want to follow the path of "cookie-cutter" bonsai. My trees will never be in a National Show and are really just for my own enjoyment and pleasure so I want to keep the tree as is for now. I always do appreciate the insight though. Makes us think and banter and stuff.Sometimes less is more, ya know?
Thank you and I don't mind at all: D & L Nursery in Ocklawaha, Florida. David, his wife Linda and David Jr. (He's not David's son) are great folks. Unfortunately, he doesn't sell online. However, you can call David Jr. and describe what you're looking for and I'm sure he'll send photos of what they have. You can tell them the "Cheapskate" from Panama City sent you if you decide to call.This is a nice elm. Nice ones seem to be hard to find. I've been looking around for one that wasn't an "S" trunk which seem to be all growers know to do with them.
Mind if I ask where you got this one?
Thank you.. It's hard to see but the branch actually comes out of the back of the tree; another no-noI think this is great the way it is,I would definately keep the bottom branch.Its a great branch.