Ulmus procera progress on carving.

[bodhidharma]

This is a tree i hollowed out a while back and it is starting to develop into a lovely little shohin.

[alpineart]

Hi Bodhi , mate that is one nice little tree , Shohin is something that is definitely missing here although I am in the process of developing a few trunk they are still years from no-where .

Cheers . Alpine

[melbrackstone]

Always inspring, Bodhi! Great shape and presentation!

[MountainFrost]

Very nice tree

[delisea]

IMO smaller sized trees are deceptively difficult to pull off. To answer Alpine that might be why there aren't that many here and why this one is so good. Nice one Bohdi.
Cheers, Symon

[Pearcy001]

Lovely Bodhi!

You seems to have a few like this. Are they all collected material from your local area? Or is there somewhere one can purchase said stock?

If you have a photo of the tree pre-carving, I'd love to see it for a bit of inspiration.

Also do you plan to cut back that long straight lower right branch?

Cheers,
Pearcy.

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[bodhidharma]

Thanks for the encouragement one and all

You seems to have a few like this. Are they all collected material from your local area? Or is there somewhere one can purchase said stock?

All collected material Pearcy. I have a private few acres to collect from.

Also do you plan to cut back that long straight lower right branch?

All the branches will be cut back at some point to create movement once they have thickened. I have to have a "tree looking tree" as it sits on the Nursery shelf and i get a lot of tourists who wander through. Never know, it might sell. I will see if i have an original photo.