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.