Chinese Elm Bonsai Styles

Chinese elm however is suitable for training into every style of bonsai and for growing in all sizes. The chinese elm ulmus parvifolia also known as the lacebark elm is among most readily available and most forgiving bonsai trees to work with making it a great choice for beginners. The best defense is to keep your tree clean and healthy.

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Many bonsai growers like to expose the long roots as seen in this tree to create the neagari style.

Chinese elm bonsai styles. The trunk grows upright roughly in the shape of a letter s and at every turn branching occurs. Chinese elm new leaves 2 hours ago 61029 i received a chinese elm for father s day and was very pleased with it. Selecting and pruning the primary branches in this second pass at building the branch structure. In taiwan and china the plant has been cultivated for hundreds of years and is considered a very undemanding tree because it tolerates such problems as.

In the beginning it had many more legs in a short time we learned how drastically you can prune a chinese elm bonsai. This tree was selected from a batch of early imports in the 1980s. The chinese elm is beautifully suited to the classical umbrella shape but can be shaped in most other styles with proper pruning alone. Chinese elms are suitable for just about every style of bonsai except formal upright.

Prune train and repot the bonsai only as needed. They do not grow with straight trunks in nature and while it is possible to train a chinese elm with a straight trunk such a trunk would have no taper. The trunk is straight and upright and does not continue to the top of the tree. Elm bonsai photos pictures.

Here you can get a bulk of chinese images. Tapering of the trunk must be clearly visible with the base of the trunk thicker than the higher portion. Informal upright bonsai style moyogi the informal upright style is common in both nature and in the art of bonsai. The chinese elm is part of the elm family.

Broom style hokidachi the broom style is suitable for deciduous trees with large numbers of fine and delicate branching. The leaves are especially small. Continuing the evolution of my big chinese elm bonsai. In warm climates such as california the tree does not drop its leaves and is evergreen.

Bonsai are susceptible to the same pests and diseases as common house plants. This is the first bonsai i have owned although i have always admired them. To care for it properly keep the tree warm and the soil moist. While they are young they can easily be wired into curved shapes and are suited to many bonsai styles.

It branches out in all directions at about 1 3 the height of the tree.