Chinese Elm- Sullivan Rock

This has been the major project for the last 3 years. One of the trees that grew from seed. two years ago I got a Rock from Sullivan Rock ( from one of the photo shoots at night)that I thought it would look good planted on(in). First drill a hole 25mm in the granite to put the trunk into and the tap root out the bottom. The rest of them over the rock so it looks like it grew there and soil washed away.

For the last few year it has been growing in a large plastic pot. This was done today with a lot of delicacy(help for my wife) as I did not want to cut the roots, just wash the soil away and re-spread out under the rock on the soil. It is not quite as I want it but its a start gives me thinking time over the next 3 years.

I did not 100% like the one tree so I put one of the small untrained trees at the back to add some depth as well. the moss came from our swamp and covers the whole surface after much patch work quilt style.

This is no longer a pot I can lift on my own it is 650mm long and the tree is 600mm height just the rock alone weighing at 15 kg as well as the pot. Not quite the right pot but I did not want to buy a new pot so this will do. Now it grows and its twin and gets shaped my vision is in front of you just as I had conceived it in my mind.