What follows is an account of the late winter preparatory work done on a trident maple (Acer buergerianum) in a developmental phase. This same specimen has twice before been featured in the Curator’s Journal. The tree is revisited in this entry, on the cusp of its fourth growing season of bonsai development.
Read MoreIt turned out that keeping this elm under control while giving it the freedom of growing in the ground was not practicably possible. When I cut it back in the spring the tree would simply explode with new growth, as if it would just as soon be a big bushy shrub if I wasn’t going to let it climb up to the sky.
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