Winged Elm Clump Progression - BrightsideB

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Was going through some photo’s and noticed I had a photo of a winged elm seedling clump I started in summer 2021.

I really like the winged elms and they are native. These are seedlings I found in the back of where I worked.

2021 beginning

 

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I put them in the ground spring of 2022 on a tile and of course the took off! I chopped them a couple weeks ago. Primarily to give me options to select my next leaders in spring 2024 and also to do some major root prunning.

Here they are August 2023
I am probably going to only keep 3 trunks because the other two have been crowded out and hardly grew. We’ll see I want to ground grow them at least a couple more years.
Hard to get a good photo crawling on the ground and because of where it’s located.The trunks together are about 2 inches in diameter. Want to at least double the size before I stop ground growing.

 

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spring 2024
Dug out of ground and root pruned. Planted in a pond basket.