3 Trunk Mountain Maple Bonsai Tree
A 3 Trunk Mountain Maple Bonsai Tree. This bonsai tree is one of our all time favorite trees because something about it just works and works very well. This used to be a 5 trunk tree before we purchased it many years ago and we had a debate with some bonsai gurus as to how the trunk loss effected the tree. The experts told us that the tree would have been more valuable if all 5 trunks were present. Just like art work bonsai trees are always up for debate and the trunks that were lost on this tree almost make it better in our humble opinion. It adds to the age old look of the tree and as with all bonsai trees we are looking to make a small tree in a pot look like a wise old tree found in nature.
The scale of this tree is very nice and it has been planted in a Walsall pot with a good covering of moss. The leaf coverage is very pleasing and the overall shape works very well. When you get to see this tree up close and 3 dimensional you really appreciate the clever layers of leafs that seem to effortlessly blend into the other layers. The front and back viewing angles on this tree are both exceptional.
As a bonsai business we have to sell our trees and keep a constant turn around of stock, however this tree is one of the ones that we would happily keep forever. Watching this tree progress through the seasons was a delight and the Autumn colors gave a beautiful display of red, yellow and orange leaves very typical of Acer bonsai.
It is very easy to pick out faults with trees and areas that could be made better but for us this tree is perfect and we would not change a thing about it.
Acer bonsai trees are very easy to look after if you keep a few basic principles in mind. Acer bonsai like to be watered and this may sound like common sense, but certain trees like the White Pine prefer to be on the dry side throughout the year. We water our Acer bonsai every day throughout the growing season and if they are in shallow containers on a hot day, then we will water them twice per day. Make sure you water the tree in the evening so that it has time to benefit from the water overnight. If you water in the morning during summer the pot can dry out in hours without the tree benefiting much from the water.
We feed our bonsai every few weeks during the growing season and have fed this Acer with seaweed fertilizer and Biogold blocks that we place in the soil. A lot of people like to place their Biogold pellets or other block feeds into the little bonsai baskets that sit just over the soil. This may work for some, but we find the blocks take quite a long time to get broken down this way and we prefer to actually bury them in the soil at the side of the pot. This way when the soil is wet, so is the Biogold blocks which means the tree is getting a constant supply of the broken down food. In the baskets the blocks remain dry throughout the day, whereas if they are in the soil they remain wet throughout the day.
A tree like this we would re-pot every 3 to four years, and we would be checking the soil drainage throughout this time. We would consider this tree to be a 'Finished Tree', meaning we do not want to change anything on the tree and basically want to keep it looking the same as it is now. So we would not want to re-pot it too often because when a tree is re-potted the growth is very strong because the roots have lots of room to grow and absorb nutrients.
This tree looks fantastic in winter when all the leaves have dropped and allows us to see the beautiful structure of the tree. Annoyingly we did not get a chance to take a picture of this tree during the winter.
This is an Acer Palmatum often called a Mountain Maple with the typical 5 lobe leaves.
We hope you enjoy the video and please leave your comments on what you think of the tree.
The scale of this tree is very nice and it has been planted in a Walsall pot with a good covering of moss. The leaf coverage is very pleasing and the overall shape works very well. When you get to see this tree up close and 3 dimensional you really appreciate the clever layers of leafs that seem to effortlessly blend into the other layers. The front and back viewing angles on this tree are both exceptional.
As a bonsai business we have to sell our trees and keep a constant turn around of stock, however this tree is one of the ones that we would happily keep forever. Watching this tree progress through the seasons was a delight and the Autumn colors gave a beautiful display of red, yellow and orange leaves very typical of Acer bonsai.
It is very easy to pick out faults with trees and areas that could be made better but for us this tree is perfect and we would not change a thing about it.
Acer bonsai trees are very easy to look after if you keep a few basic principles in mind. Acer bonsai like to be watered and this may sound like common sense, but certain trees like the White Pine prefer to be on the dry side throughout the year. We water our Acer bonsai every day throughout the growing season and if they are in shallow containers on a hot day, then we will water them twice per day. Make sure you water the tree in the evening so that it has time to benefit from the water overnight. If you water in the morning during summer the pot can dry out in hours without the tree benefiting much from the water.
We feed our bonsai every few weeks during the growing season and have fed this Acer with seaweed fertilizer and Biogold blocks that we place in the soil. A lot of people like to place their Biogold pellets or other block feeds into the little bonsai baskets that sit just over the soil. This may work for some, but we find the blocks take quite a long time to get broken down this way and we prefer to actually bury them in the soil at the side of the pot. This way when the soil is wet, so is the Biogold blocks which means the tree is getting a constant supply of the broken down food. In the baskets the blocks remain dry throughout the day, whereas if they are in the soil they remain wet throughout the day.
A tree like this we would re-pot every 3 to four years, and we would be checking the soil drainage throughout this time. We would consider this tree to be a 'Finished Tree', meaning we do not want to change anything on the tree and basically want to keep it looking the same as it is now. So we would not want to re-pot it too often because when a tree is re-potted the growth is very strong because the roots have lots of room to grow and absorb nutrients.
This tree looks fantastic in winter when all the leaves have dropped and allows us to see the beautiful structure of the tree. Annoyingly we did not get a chance to take a picture of this tree during the winter.
This is an Acer Palmatum often called a Mountain Maple with the typical 5 lobe leaves.
We hope you enjoy the video and please leave your comments on what you think of the tree.
Front & Back Viewing Angles
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These pictures show the front and back viewing angles of this Bonsai tree, and as you can see both viewing angles are very pleasing. We are always on the look out for trees with good front and back viewing angles because when looking after a tree it needs to be turned around from time to time so that the sun can hit all areas of the tree. And if one of the viewing sides is not very good, you then have to look at the ugly side for a week or so whilst it gets some sun.