SHARE YOUR MAPLES LEAVES HERE - A FOUR-SEASON THREAD

[fredman]

Osakazuki in its fall colours.

 

[fredman]

Osakazuki has progressed to this now. Beautiful bright red. Its one I have in the ground for now.

 

[AlainK]

one I have in the ground for now.

It's really beautiful.

For now ? If you want to work it as a bonsai, better plan a big one for the leaves are larger than the plain species and the internodes quite long. If i were you, I'd leave it in the ground, treat it as a - kind of - Niwaki perhaps.

 

[fredman]

For now ? If you want to work it as a bonsai, better plan a big one for the leaves are larger than the plain species and the internodes quite long. If i were you, I'd leave it in the ground, treat it as a - kind of - Niwaki perhaps.

Yeah I have two. The leaves are huge but reduce enough for a big bonsai. This photo is from a few years ago. The big leaf is the tree in the ground, and the smaller leaves are the one i'm working as a bonsai. I think/hope the leaves can go even smaller as it ages.

 

[AlainK]

Last post a month and a half old ? Time to dig this tread out

Tha A. p. atro. dissectum (don't know the name of the cultivar, it's grafted but had no name-tag) does fairly well in almost full sun, but the tips of the leaves are beginning to get brown on the outer part of the branches. Bckgrd : Acer monspessulanum and on the right, Hibiscus syriacus.



A. P. 'Ryusen' backlighted by the evening sun (à contre-jour). Bckgrd : Wisteria and Lonicera periclymenum (found in the woods there), on the right Vitex agnus-castus, with a battallion of various bees, bumblebiees, butterflies, etc. :



A few months old Acer pentaphyllum :



I put the smaller ones, those I dare call "bonsai" in mostly shaded places :

 

[Stella]

Finally I also can share a maple. Middle of winter here already and now I have to most beautiful colours. Loads of work planned for this little tree in spring