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Moganic you didnt have to sticky tape elm leaves on this tree to prove all these guys wrong. HA ha ha ha

Nice one.

Squizz

squizzy wrote:Moganic you didnt have to sticky tape elm leaves on this tree to prove all these guys wrong. HA ha ha ha

Nice one.

Squizz

Sounds like a new experimental bonsai method haha love it.

MoGanic wrote:

squizzy wrote:Moganic you didnt have to sticky tape elm leaves on this tree to prove all these guys wrong. HA ha ha ha

Nice one.

Squizz

Sounds like a new experimental bonsai method haha love it.

Not Elm

harry wrote:

MoGanic wrote:

squizzy wrote:Moganic you didnt have to sticky tape elm leaves on this tree to prove all these guys wrong. HA ha ha ha

Nice one.

Squizz

Sounds like a new experimental bonsai method haha love it.

Not Elm

haha thanks mate but I have had this ID'd by my local bonsai nursery, it's definitely an Elm.

If it looks like a maple, smells like a maple and is coloured like a maple, chances are, its an elm!

In the famous words of the indomitable Shakespear

To ulmus, or not to ulmus, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of alternating buds,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of palmate leaves,
And by opposing end them: to whither, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That alternately pinate buds are heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To go dormant,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of dormincy, what dreams may come,
When we have transformed from maple to elm,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
Blah blah blah I give up
Time for a perambulation before the rain
Devoureth all that is my luncheon break

This is still a very young tree, I have been in the garden looking at rain soaked trees ( very unusual here lately) and all the young branches appear this colour. Leaves are dependant on what variety, all are very similar.

So with all that said, I appologise even us oldies can be and are wrong at times.

Cheers Pup

To be quite honest so that others dont think I am just taking the mickey I would have said maple too.

You ,moganic, are a master illusionist. Lets see you disguise an elm as a pine huh.

Cheers

Squizz

squizzy wrote:To be quite honest so that others dont think I am just taking the mickey I would have said maple too.

You ,moganic, are a master illusionist. Lets see you disguise an elm as a pine huh.

Cheers

Squizz

Hey Squizz,

89.

Cheers

Yes 144

squizzy wrote:Yes 144

Thought so!

Well, there you go, wrong again Just a question though, as my elms bark up early..does this guy live in the sun my trees that tall have mature bark.

bodhidharma wrote:Well, there you go, wrong again Just a question though, as my elms bark up early..does this guy live in the sun my trees that tall have mature bark.

I must admit Bohdi, that was what threw me, but after seeing the young wood less than12 months I had to admit defeat

Cheers Pup

I'd say this is one of the smooth barked Chinese elm varieties. Unlike the corky and flaky bark ones it keeps its smoother bark for quite some time before it starts to peel.

Hey guys,

This is an ulmus parvifolia, however it does indeed live a lot of it's life in the sun . It has fully leaved up now and I hope to post the update as soon as I can =].

PS Pup, it's all good pictures are always difficult to ID trees by.

A note to all, the green colour developed the day after i removed the wiring which was cutting into the bark, and indeed the cambium in certain areas. Not sure why this occurred but it did! .

Andrew Legg wrote:If it looks like a maple, smells like a maple and is coloured like a maple, chances are, its an elm!

In the famous words of the indomitable Shakespear

To ulmus, or not to ulmus, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of alternating buds,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of palmate leaves,
And by opposing end them: to whither, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That alternately pinate buds are heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To go dormant,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of dormincy, what dreams may come,
When we have transformed from maple to elm,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
Blah blah blah I give up
Time for a perambulation before the rain
Devoureth all that is my luncheon break

I absolutely adored reading this poem, if you don't mind would you be able to finish it off? I would love to have a printed version even!! (Shakespeare rocks! GO OTHELLO! hey I should name one of my tree's Othello, wait to see which one commits suicide haha)

Decided to go back to the original front, looks much nicer I think.
Got a little bud branching down close to the base, will use it to thicken up the base as much as I can before giving it good ol' chop. Or perhaps I'll just train it down, then back up, then get a new tree out of it AND a sacrafice branch. Not sure it will work but at worst I'd be hurting a branch that I didn't want anyway so might as well get a bit Frankenelm while I'm at it haha.