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This is a Golden form of the Wych Elm – Ulmus Glabra “Lutescens” . Due to the amount of foliage on this i have defoliated the canopy in order to get the carvers in to do the job . The graft union has a reverse taper so i had to get rather harsh with the carving to alleviate this defect .Still having the damage done by the excavator i chose to use it to my advantage in the carving process .This was a little different to the normal carving but at the end of the day it look quite good .This too will need fine detailing at a later date . These close up shots show the depth of carving required to eliminate the damage marks from the machine that removed them from the ground Time is precious at the moment so things are flying off the racks and back again in order to catch up on lost progress .

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This is another Green form of the Elmus Galbra I don’t think i could actually call it Lutescens as it is the root stock colour not the graft stock foliage .Either way it is a Wych Elm . This was an average carving job however each to his own on these .This has a long way to go to complete the carved section but with such a big base i need a bigger carver to slice through so much time lost to injury , all these will require follow up treatment and refinement, this one more-so than the rest .Time will tell as to the direction this particular trunk will take . Until then its back to the bench and onto the next job .

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This is 1 of 4 Elms i have trimmed and re-carved after slip potting them a month or so ago .They have undergone a change from the basic carving i do initially so as to get the best from the trunk at the time . The carving was done with the aid of 4″/100mm angle grinder fitted with a tungsten tipped blade and and finished off with a dremel type mini die grinder  This is still the interim stage of the carving and will undergo another finer detail at a later stage  I will defoliate both trees 1 & 2 to begin the ramification process .I have finally identified these as Elmus Glabra “Lutecens” or Golden Wych Elm . Now not all of these are actually the Golden colour as the damaged done by the Bobcat excavator when they were ripped out of the ground has damaged the graft so 50 % are actually the green form which is the root stock used for all the grafts .I have a good supply of these in both Green and Golden forms and a couple of which are bi- colour . .

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