Garden center Chinese Elm

[brentwood]

Seems longer, but it's been a week since this haircut - I'm seeing action already. Was working on my apology, guess I don't need it yet ?
Note the Raffa- nicked the branch cutting off another, tried to keep it closed for a while, silly?
Brent

 

[brentwood]

One more, from Tonite

 

[brentwood]

Ok, so now the wife is a believer, sorta... One week, and I'm loaded with leaves.. pretty amazing, doing a daily pic progression for posterity

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[Leo in N E Illinois]

Excellent, now let these pretty much run wild until the end of the summer, then over the winter you can choose which will be your keepers and which will be cut off completely in early spring.

 

[brentwood]

Found my original receipt, it's called "Jacqueline Hill"
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<<Looks a cultivar...is it?>>

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

'Jacqueline Hill' is the short form of Ulmus 'Jacqueline Hillier'. It is a fairly common elm cultivar distributed by Hillier in both EU and North America. Discovered by Hillier in a private park, Selly Park, in 1966. It is uncertain which species it is, possibly Ulmus minor, or Ulmus pumila, or the hybrid Ulmus x hollandica which is (Ulmus glabra x Ulmus minor)

Regardless it does not flower or set seed, which is why its provenance is murky. It is winter hardy through zone 5a, possibly colder. has small leaves and because of its dwarf habit is relatively immune to Dutch elm disease.

It is popular for bonsai. You should be able to make a decent tree out of it.

 

[brentwood]

'Jacqueline Hill' is the short form of Ulmus 'Jacqueline Hillier'. It is a fairly common elm cultivar distributed by Hillier in both EU and North America. Discovered by Hillier in a private park, Selly Park, in 1966. It is uncertain which species it is, possibly Ulmus minor, or Ulmus pumila, or the hybrid Ulmus x hollandica which is (Ulmus glabra x Ulmus minor)

Regardless it does not flower or set seed, which is why its provenance is murky. It is winter hardy through zone 5a, possibly colder. has small leaves and because of its dwarf habit is relatively immune to Dutch elm disease.

It is popular for bonsai. You should be able to make a decent tree out of it.

It's been a long time, but I wanted to post an update showing what happened over the summer. Not much to compare it to, but it looks much bushier. I cut my sacrifice back a little, wanted to put it below the rest of the tree, push that add dominant. Will put it to bed soon, start pondering quick shoots to keep...
Brent

 

[ConorDash]

This looks good.
I’d guess by your climate that elms probably decide to not drop leaves in your winter? They are real funny about whether they decide to stop or not... it’s good if they do as you always tend to have a messy bush by end of growing season and visibility to see what you are cutting is always nice..

make sure you feed it well mate, fert all day long for next growing season. Get some proper vigorous growth in to it.

 

[brentwood]

Put this into a smaller pot, cleaned up the roots a little - nicer looking under the ground than I expected... Here's to Green soon.

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[brentwood]

Just noticed this - some kind of winter damage to the surface roots? Any thing I can do to help the plant?
Brent

 

[Jzack605]

Frost crack most likely.

just let it heal.

Remove that girdling root.

 

[brentwood]

Still plugging asking, repotted this spring, dug into some old, tangled rid. Feels like it's better than it was - I'll take that