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Water Elm Forest Progression

I thought I would post up a progression of my water elm forest that I started from cuttings from the tree shown below. This tree is now sadly gone (due to a stupid mistake) but at least I still have the cuttings that came from it. I rooted the cuttings in 2016 but I don't have any pics of them...

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Crape Myrtle Mame Progression

I originally collected this is a volunteer seedling growing in the gravel driveway of my wife's old house in 2013 or 2014. The first pic I have is this one from 2015. I was trying to make a representation of the standard crape form that you see in almost everyone's yard in the South. My...

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Grewia progression

So here's a Grewia post. History- Started from a cutting 1991. Nurtured as a flowering ornamental by my mother until 2012. I would give periodic haircuts once or twice a year on my visits. These haircuts implied bonsai. The grow was always long and leggy because of how the flowers form. First...

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A Crape Myrtle Project

About 18 years ago my buddy Ken took me to an old nursery that specialized in conifers and other unusual species (he had been going since the mid 70s). Unfortunately, due to various circumstances, the nursery was very run down and had long since been out of business...but there were still some...

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Sean’s Trident Projects

Starting a thread to document some of my trident projects. Over the last 12 months I’ve managed to amass around 60 tridents ranging from 1 year old seedlings grown from seed myself to a really chunky stump that I chopped down from a 3m tall nursery tree. I’ll document them all here. I currently...

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Progression of building nebari and fat trunk base for a Ficus microcarpa

I have not posted on the forum for a while primarily due to vacation and working on the ficus I am bringing to the National Show next week. Its basically done, continue to snip here and there for the final touches. Finally I can work on other trees and found time to write about another ficus...

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Ulmus Pumila Carnivorous

Here’s a tree I’ve been hacking on for a couple of years. I haven’t started on branch work yet, I’m hoping for buds to pop in good locations for arms. It’s a fun tree that I wanted to start a thread on and capture it’s progression.

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B&B Hinoki

Starting the progress on this Hinoki. Bought this tree from Home Depot and it may not have been the most wise purchase. It was B&B and under the burlap it was hiding the graft. I looked through all of the ones available and couldnt see a graft on any of them, so I thought these didn’t have...

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