AlainK
Imperial Masterpiece
Rather than posting in the section "Grafting, layering & propogating", I thought it more appropriate to post this here. (à propos -by the way : "propogating"?... 
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A friend gave me a cutting of what he called Zelkova 'Nire'. Ah ah ah!
'Nire' is Japanese for "Elm". It's just an Ulmus parvifolia, perhaps a subspecies one could call "cork-bark", whatever. I suspect it's just the plain species.
Anyway, I took some cuttings in mid-June 2012, and put them in a mix with a lot of fine sand. I repotted them in August the same year:
November 12, 2012:
Two of these in 2016:
I'm planning to take bigger ones later this year. And of course, when planted in the ground, they develop much, much faster...
)A friend gave me a cutting of what he called Zelkova 'Nire'. Ah ah ah!
'Nire' is Japanese for "Elm". It's just an Ulmus parvifolia, perhaps a subspecies one could call "cork-bark", whatever. I suspect it's just the plain species.
Anyway, I took some cuttings in mid-June 2012, and put them in a mix with a lot of fine sand. I repotted them in August the same year:
November 12, 2012:
Two of these in 2016:
I'm planning to take bigger ones later this year. And of course, when planted in the ground, they develop much, much faster...
