Three reasons to open rising red maples – Bonsai Tonight

I’ve handiest lately started caring for a red maple, Acer rubrum, but I’ve already been impressed by its charms. Must you’re shopping for a U.S. native deciduous species to experiment with, the red maple is an correct dilemma to open.

1. Drop coloration

Crimson maples – aka swamp maples – can come by spectacular plunge coloration. Even in the Bay Region, an area no longer known for its plunge coloration, red maples can come by gleaming pinks, reds, oranges, and yellows.

I didn’t fetch a photograph of the maple below when it first changed from green to pink-red, but even the waning plunge colors proved gentle.

Drop coloration on red maple

Crimson, orange, and yellow leaves

2. Comely twigs

Take care of many species in the maple genus, red maples are naturally filled with life growers. No topic this, a aggregate of pruning and defoliation can come by runt leaves and gleaming twigs.

The tree below grew freely since a mid-summer season pruning and produced a swish desire of gleaming twigs. I’m waiting for learning how dense and twiggy red maple specimens can fetch.

Winter silhouette – 23″

3. Adaptable and broadly on hand

Crimson maples are native to the eastern U.S. and fluctuate from Texas to Florida to Canada. They grow successfully in warmth climates and cool climates and would possibly per chance moreover thrive in an expansion of soils and light-weight prerequisites.

They’ll moreover offer alternatives for growing deadwood aspects. Older or quiet specimens would possibly per chance moreover characteristic ineffective trunks and unique shoots that sprout from the decrease trunk or roots.

Deadwood with unique shoots sprouting from the snide of the trunk

Caveats

Take care of most species, red maples would possibly per chance moreover non-public qualities that don’t fetch them an correct candidate on your bonsai series.

While many cultivated forms characteristic pleasurable plunge coloration, some are extra allergenic than others. Crimson maples are moreover poisonous to horses if that’s a ache.

Must you’re routine to learn extra, The wikipedia entry for Acer rubrum provides an correct overview of the species’ correct and depraved elements, including the tidbit that suggests the species would possibly also be broken-down for syrup manufacturing!

Attain you need to moreover non-public red maples on your bonsai garden? If that is the case, feel free to piece your abilities in the feedback below.

Unusual YouTube Video for Bonsai Empire’s 20th Anniversary

Bonsai Empire is celebrating their 20th Anniversary with movies from bonsai consultants all over the sector. Matters fluctuate from Bjorn Bjorholm discussing which branches to address or gash to Peter Warren discussing soil and water pH.

I contributed a video answering the request of easy the style to grow a bonsai from seed.

It’s good to moreover gain a complete checklist of films on the Bonsai Empire weblog, or apply their YouTube channel right here.

Congratulations Bonsai Empire – we’re waiting for the next twenty years!