Today I took another workshop with Danny Use at the Ginkgo Bonsai Center. I brought my Ulmus Minor which I purchased there a little over a month ago.

On the agenda for today:

Removing some unnecessary branches

Applying guy wires to pull down some bigger branches

Ground-layering the tree to start a better nebari

The “before” picture.

Danny removing some branches that we won’t be using.

Applying some guy-wires to adjust some branches, the big one is my first guy-wire ever 🙂

All guy-wires are in place. Notice the nice trunk but poor nebari.

The ground-layer already in place. We took some patches of bark off at the desired places, covered them with sphagnum moss, put a screen mesh around it, filled it with more moss and then put a layer of zeolyte on top so the moss is pressed against the newly created wounds.

No pics of the whole process, forgot to take them…

The “after” picture.

Now all I have to do in the next months is to prune new shoots so the tree keeps it’s shape. At the end of summer new roots should have formed at the ground-layer area.