Hedge Maple Bonsai

This tree is included with the other maple trees in the sapindaceae soapberry family though some botanists still consider it to be in aceraceae.

Hedge maple bonsai. The hedge maple acer campestre is a deciduous tree. Placing the maple bonsai in the container. Like the montpelier maple the lobes of its leaves are obtuse otherwise uncommon in maples. The famous violin maker antonio stradivari chose this species for some of his creations.

This photo was taken four years after walter started working with this tree. Simon and shuster s guide rates this tree as very easy to cultivate as bonsai. The before photo is below. A wall of 50 50 mix of peat and cow manure mixed together to make the wall.

Use water deficient in lime as the japanese maple prefers a neutral or slightly acid ph value. It is a pleasing display tree in autumn with buttercup yellow leaves. Developing deciduous bonsai with walter pall s hedge pruning method. Its branches don t seem to ramify as finely as other maples.

The hedge maple if left in the ground and not in a pot can grow to heights of over 25 feet and will make a lovely shade tree and can also be used in nearly any landscape as a hedge if planted close together in rows along fences or driveways or as dividers on property lines simply use your own imagination if using the trees this way. It can be used for its timber and as an ornamental plant. It consists of a single tree a maple and a hedge cotoneaster trees. Together with added moss the resulting miniature looks stunning.

A japanese maple that walter pall uses to illustrate his hedge cutting method.