chinese elm

Hi guys, I wrote before about the big leaves on my Chinese Elm. I planned on repotting my tree a few weeks ago but haven't got to it yet. I notice my tree has been losing leaves with quite a few dead /yellow leaves on it now. The tree was a gift and...

This is my first bonsai. It's a chinese elm and I grew it from a seed. Always indoors, watered daily with a little diluted fertilizer, mist it sometimes. Southern Alberta. It seems healthy growing lots but all a sudden I notice one of the newer leaves has a brown tip? and the older leaves have...

was walking by this tree today and I had the thought that because this looks like an old branch that was chopped and caloused over. Wpuld it be possible to air lay this? It would make an insane little sumo Bonsai if it was possible. what does eveyone think?

Hello, So here is Ben and Luke. Have posted a thread with some pics of them before but not specifically on them both. Ben is the older one (some even call him Ol' Ben) thicker trunk (and GREAT bark, I love it). Luke is thinner and can see at its base, its just starting to get the nice bark...

Hello, Having done some pruning of 3 chinese elms this weekend, there are a few things that come up and I wanted to ask about. Its 1 thing to have read a lot about pruning, styling, etc etc, but its another to do it yourself and I find myself not knowing which to keep and prune. For starters...

So I have had my Chinese elm for a couple months now and though it is a young and small tree I would like some ideas as to what to do with this tree moving forward. I would like to thicken the trunk and get more dense foliage. I'm open to whatever you think could best help this tree moving...

I’m working on a longer term informal upright Chinese elm. I purchased the tree in early 2012 and its first three years were subpar due to my noob usage (“learning opportunity”) of subpar soil material (too organic), inadequate pot sizing, and poor timing of pruning. Tiny tree, mid-2012...

Hello, I just wanted to dump in a load of pics of a few lovely trees that I picked up from BobbyLane. Thanks again to him :). There's a link to the whole album with multiple of each tree, but I will just post 1 pic of each on here, as to not take up too much space. These were all re-potted...

today was a big day, I received my Chinese elm bonsai. Though I am very excited about this new hobby, I am definitely going to need some help. My goal for the future and yes I know this is a long way away is to make this an upright broom style bonsai. I wanted to get some feedback on the first...

I decided to trade the reverse taper black pine for these three trees. http://imgur.com/a/8OFU6 The pine project was too overwhelming.

I found this little guy at a local garden center. I was attracted to it because it had the thickest trunk and I saw an opportunity to chop it for taper. Since the chop, it's put out some strong growth, although not in the most desirable locations along the bends. Maybe spring will bring some new...

Hello everyone, I am really new to bonsai and I'm having some trouble with my medium sized Chinese Elm. My wife ordered it for me online from a reputable shop and the tree showed up in amazing condition. It was full, green and beautiful! I have had the tree for about 5 weeks now and within the...

Hi, This is more so a topic for record and progression but comments are always welcomed, of course. Although bare in mind any comments on something I did wrong will simply torment me as the deed is done now, so try to go easy :P. I did read a lot and prepare a lot before hand, so here's hoping...

Hello, I've shown my elm in my newbie thread recently, but thought I'd put it in here for the future progress pics and also asking for any general advice or tips people have. I've made an album of the pics, because I took quite a few and didn't wanna load them all up in this topic...

This may be nothing but thought I might as well ask.. Some new shoots of my Chinese elm are forming red branches.. Everything else perfect normal but I'm quite previously the new branches were white, not red. Anything to be worried about? May be nothing but thought I'd ask.

Hello, Yes its another new person post! Reading through the forums so far, theres quite a few of them. I'll try keep this short, don't mean for you to read an essay. I'm quite the beginner, but I read a lot and watch a lot of videos, to learn as much as I can. Now I've gotten to the point...

Have any or you read Brooklyn Botanic Garden's book "Indoor Bonsai", published 2002? I'm curious the thoughts of the membership here and experiences of people growing indoors, especially those growing year round. I read the book about a year ago via my local library, then recently picked up...

while picking up my quince the other week, I found this Chinese elm ( or so labeled by my nursery ). It wasn't selling, so I got it pretty cheap, and figured why the heck not. So I bought it. I'll be attending my first bonsai class in less than a month at natures way in harrisburge. But in the...

With spring growth in full swing in Houston, I'm in the busiest time of the year. Trees in development are fertilized heavily - solid fertilizer on top and liquid fertilizer every weekend. Trees are pushing huge growth - it seems like they change every time I look away for a minute. That...

Okay, so here's what's going on. I have a chinese elm I got about two years ago, it's a bonsai, not a pre-bonsai, though I have been planting it in a deeper pot to try and thicken the trunk up a bit. Previous fall, spring and summer I put outside in (northern) sunlight. When winter came around I...

Hello all! First, I just want to say thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to help me here. I am extremely new to Bonsai trees. I was very interested in caring for one, so for Christmas, I received a Chinese Elm from my girlfriend. However...we are a bit concerned... So, I received a...

Hello Everyone, I wanted to see if there was anything I can do to save my first bonsai tree. Little history: When I got the tree back in Nov the leaves quickly fell off because of root rot which i did away with and re-plotted the bonsai in a new ~70% non-organic ~30% organic mixture soil with a...

I visited Bonsai Northwest in Seattle when my wife and I were visiting her dad in Gig Harbor back in 1997. I bought a corkbark Chinese Elm and pot, and wired it out. This is the earliest photo I can find; from around 1998. I sold it 10-12 years ago, but did start some root cuttings at some...