American Elm

[Mellow Mullet]

@Mellow Mullet ,
I just read this thread for the first time. Great progression!!
Gives me hope that I can achieve something with a few zelkovas I have in a few years!
Just a question. I see from the first post to now, you've upped your taste in beer! Are you still rockin' the PBR?

Yes! PBR is my yard beer. It is just a good tasting all around beer. I occasionally buy others if they are on sale. I get Corona this time of year because I have a key lime tree in the yard that is loaded.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Update on the Hornbeam:

It got a well overdue repot this spring and grew like crazy, it has already been trimmed once and it is ready for another. I know it is controversial, but I have been using Walther Pall's hedging method on it for a while and I think it has paid off.

Before the Work:





After hedge-trimming (forgot to take some pictures), I decided to defoliate and see how it was shaping up. It is a fairly large tree, there were exactly 4,183 leaves on it.

After defoliation:









The ramification is really coming along but needed some thinning.

After thinning:

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Almost forgot, here's the beer shot:

 

[Carol 83]

Almost forgot, here's the beer shot:

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Is Dixie Voodoo like Pixie Dust?

 

[Mellow Mullet]

It is, only better! I have heard that the pixie's consume it before collecting the dust...

 

[Mellow Mullet]

UPDATE:

Almost ready for a haircut.

 

[Shogun610]

UPDATE:

Almost ready for a haircut.
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Great Hornbeam

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Great Hornbeam

Thanks!

 

[Mellow Mullet]

UPDATE: Early summer trim...



Hey. @bonsainut, could you please change the title of this thread to American Hornbeam?

 

[Mellow Mullet]

UPDATE: Since it was hotter than Satan's armpits this Summer, the second flush wasn't as thick as usual. It got a trim today anyway.

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Some fall pictures, this is really all that I get with this one, brown and crispy with flecks of yellow here and there.