Hedge Maple Bonsai

Use water deficient in lime as the japanese maple prefers a neutral or slightly acid ph value.
Hedge maple bonsai. Like the montpelier maple the lobes of its leaves are obtuse otherwise uncommon in maples. It can be used for its timber and as an ornamental plant. A japanese maple in a bonsai pot must be watered daily in most cases during the growth season maybe even several times a day during the hottest days if the soil is well drained and the tree healthy and vigorous. The hedge maple acer campestre is a deciduous tree.
Continue reading about watering bonsai trees. Simon and shuster s guide rates this tree as very easy to cultivate as bonsai. It consists of a single tree a maple and a hedge cotoneaster trees. The famous violin maker antonio stradivari chose this species for some of his creations.
A wall of 50 50 mix of peat and cow manure mixed together to make the wall. The before photo is below. This tree is included with the other maple trees in the sapindaceae soapberry family though some botanists still consider it to be in aceraceae. Placing the maple bonsai in the container.
It is a pleasing display tree in autumn with buttercup yellow leaves. Its branches don t seem to ramify as finely as other maples. Field maple or hedge maple. A japanese maple that walter pall uses to illustrate his hedge cutting method.
This photo was taken four years after walter started working with this tree.