This is one of my Hornbeams. It stands about 60 cm wide, by 80 cm high, it's one of my biggest trees.

The tree was collected in about 1989 and soon after collecting it. I realised that the lower trunk was mainly scar tissue, most of the original bark had been chewed by rabbits. There were a few buds low down on the trunk. These were allowed to grow on and at the right time, prior to the leaves opening, holes were drilled through the trunk and the shoots passed through the holes, One year later the branches had swollen and the graft was complete. I left the tree for another year before removing the unwanted parts of the original shoots.