Well trees are like real estate . It’s location location . That tree in Canada is a steal at that price . There really only used for bonsai here . There not common as a landscape tree . So rare in any large size hence expensive . As for styling advice I’m the wrong person to ask . It’s a personal taste thing . 90 percent of the ones you see are in that S style . Nothing wrong with that I just find it boring . But you have a nice tree .
Yea, i not 100% happy with this s shape (i recently found out these type of massed produced trees are referred to as mallsai), it felt very generic, especially as there were literally a 1000 others that looked similar. There was another tree that really caught my eye, that was in a slanting shape, but it had some bigger flaws such as deep wire cuts. This one I based it on that there were very few scars or wire bite marks, it had a slightly thicker trunk then all the trees in its price range (about half a cm), had branches in most of the correct places and most importantly it looked like it was more vigorous than the others. Although this might just mean they missed it on the last trim.
@Paradox styling wise, i'm looking for general advice how to improve it, ie make it less of a generic tree. I was also thinking of correcting some of the "flaws", i'm not sure how visible it is on the pictures, but picture 2 looks to me the best possible front, based on trunk base flare that is not visible in this picture (although i'm not going to finalize this decision until i'm able to see all around the trunk), but one of the flaws is a crotch branch that has been bent to fill the space on the right of the tree. I want to rather attempt to grow a branch on the elbow to replace this and would like suggestions on how to force budding on the trunk to achieve this. I've read that elms react well to scaring and was wondering if this could be attempted to achieve this goal?
If so, how do you go about making such a scar? Do you just cut away a chunk of the bark? How deep do i cut, until i see sap wood or stop when i see cambium?