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I rarely post my own trees as I find many of them not so interesting. I'll make an exception

Actually the topic title is not completely correct, this is one of my first trees - I have one more of those.
Both were grown from seed, when I was still living in Amsterdam and had a balcony but no garden.

The seeds came from an elm growing in the street where I lived:



It's that tiny balcony on the second floor. It was filled with trees at that time - but obviously it wasn't a good environment for them - not enough light.

The seedling did grow however, and I trunk-chopped it. Not sure how old it was at that time, but it must have been less than three years (as I didn't live there that long).

I moved to a house with a garden and the trees that survived went with me. I expanded my collection... but got 2 children, we re-decorated our house, both had jobs, and I neglected my collection and lost interest. I had a juniper - the one in my profile - that continued to grow well though, in a large stone garden pot. When I took that tree out of the pot, in a garbage bag, to the bonsai club, I was surprised by the very positive reactions, and that sparked new interest.

By that time the little elm, that had been suffering for years, was near death. It had very few branches left and even less foliage, of which most died off quickly after emerging. I repotted it, fertlized it, and started taking care of it again. It did recover and this is what it is like now.






It's not a great tree. As said, I chopped it, but I should have let a lower branch grow out as new top. The proportions of lower trunk and upper trunk parts are not right. The lower trunk is fatter than the upper part, but the tapering is not really good. There were no nebari - only big fat roots - and air-layering only partly worked. It's still very visible that I tried to air-layer it... only a few tiny roots developed, there's still a clear cut.

Ramification is nice though, I think, and the leaves are nice and small.

While it is about 20 years old, it hasn't developed into a great tree. I will keep it for always though, as it was my first

Thanks for sharing. Is there a topic for short history of trees?
This is very inspirational.

Nice to see your tree. One of my first trees is very dear to me, i lost my small collection 7 years ago due to circumstances. Only one barely survived, it's growing fine now.

cheers

It's a very good tree, might not get a blue ribbon. I like your tree, if it ever needs a home, let me know.

nice tree, keep it going and send lots of pictures