Ghoul, Flattop on Stone
The process of planting a bald cypress on a stone slab.
The early beginnings of a great informal upright bald cypress that was collected from the wild.
This little port is a familiar tree in many of my past Facebook posts. Yet, in such a short time, I was able to develop this tree’s branch structure within two years and move straight into refinement.
I started this Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia, from cutting stock we had at the nursery. I wish I had taken photos of this tree when I first chopped it as it was repotted during a workshop that was all about repotting and developing proper nebari on elms. It just so happens that the little tree …
I had the pleasure of giving a demonstration and workshop in Austin, Texas, this past week. I was invited out to their beautiful meeting space at Zilker Botanical Garden. We share a lot native elm trees with central Texas but one in the particular that I’ve always have wanted to work with is the cedar …