[gr8bookworm] Elm

[gr8bookworm]

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Species: Elm
Height: 60cm
Bought from: Ledanta Bonsai
Cost: $30 (cant remember exactly)

[gr8bookworm]

Small update,

I removed some of the larger branches and this is how it looked this afternoon:



Did a few more cuts and wired some of the branches, i'm only new so advice would be appreciated.

[bodhidharma]

My first advice would be that it is not an oak. Looks like an Elm to me.

[Bretts]

Lucky because it will make a nice Elm

[bodhidharma]

Lucky because it will make a nice Elm

Thanks for adding that Bretts yes a good elm. Steven might have to bend the rules a bit

[PaulC]

Might be a wild guess,

but as for the cost, perhaps the tree may have been $45.00.....................a wild guess, just based on the pics ?

Not that its important to the conpitetion.

A pot is a pot, and an oak may be an elm, so.......?

Good luck with it either way, looking good so far.


PaulC

[gr8bookworm]

Yep, dont I feel like a goose....

Yep the tree was labled at $45 but I think I only paid $25-$30 for it.

So any help with the branches/structure of the tree?

thanks,
Mark

[bodhidharma]

Yep, dont I feel like a goose....

I have felt like that many times. This is a good tree and it is just letting it grow and get some branch thickening.. The tree looks quite large, do you know the height has to be 250mm and under?

[gr8bookworm]

I was going to cut this back shorter but now think i will grow it out so i will withdraw this from the shohin competition.