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Old 22-May-2005   #3
Candy_J_Shirey
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Originally Posted by Elm237
... My idea of my small forest planting is about 3 Sugar Maples on a rock slab. ...


Elm237-

Sugar maples are a difficult species to use as bonsai. The internodes are large and the leaves do not reduce well.

I have hundreds of these maples on my property and have played with them as bonsai a bit. Even though I was successful in partial leaf reduction, they make much better "life size" trees than bonsai.

How about some nice Chinese elm for a forest?

-Candy
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