My Corky Bark Chinese Elm

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My Corky Bark Chinese Elm

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Hi all, Just wanted to share my bonsai journey with this tree and see if the original owner can still recognise it after all this years ;) First pics is when it was taken off the ground...
And here it is now. It started to dropped it's leaves to get ready for the coming cold season.
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Beautiful! Great inspiration for the future of my own!
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:o That's Mine!!!
It went missing from my garden years ago.
Now I will have it back. :fc:
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:clap:
Wow Wee! :worship:

Ok - I want to swear ...in a good way ... but as I am on a public forum let me just say ... "This is bl@@dy amazing." Wonderful. :imo:

What great foresight you have! To dig it up and 'see'/imagine the future and then what care and knowledge you must have applied.

Inspiration squared.

Thank you and any further information, timelines (how long from root to this?), approach etc... would be appreciated.

Cheers, MJL

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Agree with MJL, i want to know what the timeline for this tree from first picture to last is!
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Thanks for the kind words TimS and MJL and sorry Keep Calm this was acquired legally lol :D

It’s nice to know that all the efforts and time have yielded results that gets acknowledged by my co bonsaist..anyways, this journey took around 5 loooong years hehe I was too cautious and did not want to try any ambitious move. You know… when you haven’t got that much trees you don’t want to lose any :fc:
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Fantastic effort for 5 years! You can certainly be proud of your work on this!

I'm the same, quite gentle on my advanced trees for fear or setting them back, maybe too gentle sometimes. I'll have to post up a photo of mine at some point for ideas on where to head with it. Trunk is probably similar thickness to yours but nowhere near as much development or beauty in it, mine is quite 'formal upright pine' at the moment and i'ts annoying me next to a very naturally styled non Cork Bark Elm.
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loyskirineba wrote: Keep Calm this was acquired legally lol :D
:palm: Ok, you caught me out - I do tell a lie. Mine looked more like this :whistle:
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You've got some awesome colouring in you background JM's too. Gotta be happy with those!
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[quote="TimS"]Fantastic effort for 5 years! You can certainly be proud of your work on this!


Cheers TimS! Show us your pines :yes: Pines are very tricky but you can get away with formal upright anytime.. just need to know your actual tree more when it comes to decandling and so on to have the beautiful pads going :) love working on them as well but i'm like extra gentle on them compare to decidious :reading: i'm still learning ;)
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Stunning Tree! Great job. :cool:
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Hey there keep calm! so it does look like mine on a diff angle right? :D Those JM's are my precious :whistle: hehe maybe one day I can get them a nice japanese pot to match ....
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Thanks the Munt! :yes:
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I'll put some photos of my Corky Bark Elm up when the leaves change colour or once they've dropped in winter for some styling advice for the future direction. I prefer natural looking trees like yours so the formal style of my elm kind of annoys me
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Fantastic work, looks amazing!
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Sorry TimS.. I've misread your post and started talking about Pines lol- putting movement on decidious trees esp thick ones will need to be cut back and grow again but there's always some drastic ways you can try hehe
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