Collecting a Field-Grown Maple

The North Carolina Arboretum's bonsai collection has quite a few nice little trees with big, impressive trunks, and many of the specimens were grown in place. How was it done? Through in-ground growing. Over the past twenty-five years the Arboretum's Bonsai Curator Arthur Joura has been refining techniques for producing small trees with large trunks, demonstrated in this new video documenting part of the process. Read the accompanying entry in the Journal Archive.