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Hi,
New member......got a elm tree bonsai two weeks ago and its just started to drop leaves like mad what should I do???

Did you read about how to care for it on our site?

If yes, please share photos and detailed info on how you care for it

garrybr wrote: Hi,
New member......got a elm tree bonsai two weeks ago and its just started to drop leaves like mad what should I do???

If the local climate is noticeably hotter than where it was grown the tree may be going into summer dormancy. Put it in partial shade, water it when it dries out, and wait until spring.?

Hello, first off, season is quite important to tell anything.

This is an international forum, so where are you in the world?

Hopefully you have not got it inside

Yes its inside...is that not right.
I thought it could be in or outside.

That is the problem, Chinese Elms are hardy, and do not do well inside, unless you are having severe frosts put it outside.

Yea, this indoor elm myth that the market has created. We are batteling it all the time here. There may be someone out there that has made it a few years. But it is not in the nature of the tree. I have never seen a beginner trying their first bonsai experience with temperate trees indoors make it. We see it all the time here. One post about an indoor elm suffering and then never seen again. This indoor tree business is killing the hobby.

If you are serious about growing bonsai, get a locally hardy species and grow it outdoors. That will make you feel the enjoyment of creating miniature trees all experienced bonsai people feel instead of that frustration beginners with indoor trees feels.

But be aware, as soon as you have discovered the enjoyment of bonsai, you will want more trees. Everytime you visit a garden center or a fellow bonsai artist you end up with a new tree. You start to dig stuff up in your suroundings. Starts growing cuttings and seadlings. Build one bonsai bench, build one more and one more. Visiting clubs and shows, obviously getting new trees from them. Build one more bench, just one more. This is how adictive it is doing bonsai the right way.

I know you may think, this is not me. But rest asure, I have met many in the hobby and noone has made it sticking to just one or a handful trees.

Tropfrog wrote:
But be aware, as soon as you have discovered the enjoyment of bonsai, you will want more trees. Everytime you visit a garden center or a fellow bonsai artist you end up with a new tree. You start to dig stuff up in your suroundings. Starts growing cuttings and seadlings. Build one bonsai bench, build one more and one more. Visiting clubs and shows, obviously getting new trees from them. Build one more bench, just one more. This is how adictive it is doing bonsai the right way.

I know you may think, this is not me. But rest asure, I have met many in the hobby and noone has made it sticking to just one or a handful trees.

In extreme cases, you will wind up buying the back yard next door, then another.?

Thank you all for help and advice. Hopefully I wont kill the lovely little Elm and yes I think Im already looking at another tree to purchase.....
Thanks once again I will let you know how we get on.

Kind regards
Garry