Ultimate Ulmus Smackdown!

[Cadillactaste]

Thanks Darlene! I really like your elms particularly your winged ROR elm! Very nice!

Quite welcome...

Thank ya kindly... elm are just a fun pastime. Would love a chunk of elm to play with like my friends across the pond. With depth in the bark ..and, scars even. As I'm broke there with my love of scars on a deciduous. I wouldn't mind even a raw project. For a cool, ugly trunk that's easy on my back.

Yeah... love that ROR. It's got great fluid movement in the trunk.

 

[Goodbrake]

I agree. The leaves a pretty distinctive from other Chinese elms. And these are true deciduous as opposed to some others that are semi-evergreen.

All in all, I like working on most elms. Cedar elms are also quite nice with some impressive specimens with great character being collected down south.

I'm bummed I didn't get to attend the workshop you led in Austin a couple years back. The cedar elms here will literally grow in the cracks in the concrete and the nooks and crannies in outdoor staircases. I collected a small one last autumn growing in a pocket in a rock with just a pocket knife in one hand and my wily dog on a leash in the other.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Did you know...I always thought they were warty. The Seiju elm... was a huge turn off. I didn't realize that it was premature cork bark. This thread...and Ralph Manning on Instagram ... his comment to me on cork bark...had me mentally placing it on my want list. Picked up a clump today... this is a screenshot of the video shared. I'm hoping my front is in there somewhere. Around 8 inches tall...

 

[jeef16]

Yatsubusa Elm. I got many different elm varities. But I like this one the most.

yatsubusa elm no. 1

This Yatsubusa Elm is roughly 60-100 Years years old from the Japan and is potted into a Byron Myrick ceramic. The tree's form in this iteration is a Harmonious.

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I got a yatsubusa young prebonsai material from evergreen gardenworks in the other week! any particular growing tips with this specific cultivar? I know they can be quite brittle sometimes

 

[Cadillactaste]

Soooo.... Seiju isn't a true cork bark... corticosa elm are. So is it wrong to call it cork bark/Seiju that is.

 

[Cadillactaste]

That said...hard to not call it cork bark...