Originally Posted by Candy_J_Shirey

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