Zelkova Japanese Grey bark Elm

[alpineart]

This is one of the first tree's to change colour here this season so I thought I would show off the flame red and orange leaves

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. It had a quick 30 second trim with the trusty Ozito rechargable trimmer

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. A quick spin on the turntable 3 rotations and hold the machine in the right place beats trying to trim it full of leaves ,

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I will selectively trim it after leaf drop .

Cheers Alpineart

[kcpoole]

Lovely colour and nice tree
congrats

Ken

[alpineart]

Hi kc , mate its the first decent colour since it was collected and appears to be very early here , the other layered trunk hasn't change colour at all . The new radial roots mass is a major improvement over the collected base , be interesting to see whats under the soil ..

Cheers , Alpine

[Boics]

Love the nebari on this one alp!

[alpineart]

Hi Biocs , It has developed well , another couple of seasons to thicken them up and conceal the ugly sections of the base and it will be a very good Narebri .

Cheers . Alpine

[alpineart]

This had a hard hack and chop yesterday and some heavy duty wire applied to move the thick branches around a bit .

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Making progress in the right direction , I could go harder on the cut back but this has a tendency to have die off of the young shoots over winter so i will selectively trim it again during the growing season and wire the selected finer shoots ,

This is 1 of layers taken from the main trunk , it spent 2 seasons in the ground with the 2 lowest branches retained as sacrifice branches . The branches grew to around 2.1-2,4 metres and failed as layers themselves but blew the trunk out to 50mm plus . After removing them it was planted into this 600mm saucer last season and allowed to grow on .

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I have remove a straight trunk leaving only a lower branch as the new leader .

The base is a shocker but a little magic can work wonders , the scars are healing well so anther season in a large pot or grow bed should see them heal over depending of the growth over the next season , I haven't thought of a style for this one yet but will wire some sort of shape into it . Healing the trunk and improving base are the priorities here .

Cheers . Alpineart

[alpineart]

I had some extra time during a lunch break so I slipped these out trimmed the roots and potted them into deeper pots

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Slowly getting through the tree's during the digging process .

Cheers . Alpineart