TimIAm
Mame
In suburban Sydney it's not uncommon to see young trees which have grown from seed, washed from the curbside into the edge of drains where silt has built up. However, they are stupidly hard to collect because the roots normally make their way into cracks in the cement or road.
I got lucky with this elm (collected Feb 2023), because rather than digging its roots into cracks, it decided to send its roots downward into the drain. Although the roots in the first picture look very thin, this tree had about 10 long roots which were around 50cm long (~20 inches).
My original plan was wait until the tree had recovered and make a literati style tree standing tall by using the exposed long roots.
That plan went out the window, and here is how it looks today.
You can see from the first picture that the current top section of the tree is all new growth. The aim is to thicken this top section so that it is in balance with the lower branch. I am still considering putting this into an Anderson flat for 2 years, but for now it is happily pushing out a reasonable amount of growth.
We are just about to enter our Spring growth season. This tree never dropped its leaves from the last round of growth in Autumn (Fall) and new leaves are already pushing through. Typically Elms here will drop these older leaves in about 2 weeks when the new buds start pushing growth.
I got lucky with this elm (collected Feb 2023), because rather than digging its roots into cracks, it decided to send its roots downward into the drain. Although the roots in the first picture look very thin, this tree had about 10 long roots which were around 50cm long (~20 inches).
My original plan was wait until the tree had recovered and make a literati style tree standing tall by using the exposed long roots.
That plan went out the window, and here is how it looks today.
You can see from the first picture that the current top section of the tree is all new growth. The aim is to thicken this top section so that it is in balance with the lower branch. I am still considering putting this into an Anderson flat for 2 years, but for now it is happily pushing out a reasonable amount of growth.
We are just about to enter our Spring growth season. This tree never dropped its leaves from the last round of growth in Autumn (Fall) and new leaves are already pushing through. Typically Elms here will drop these older leaves in about 2 weeks when the new buds start pushing growth.
