Trident Maple - Group

Thomas_J.

Here is a trident maple group that I have been working on for only a year. When it was given to me, I had decided to give it to some one else as I didn't see much future in it. The problem was, no one else wanted it either. It was every bit of four ft. tall and resembeled a bush more than a tree. After studying it for a while I saw a glimmer of hope in there. Anyway this is our second year together. I see many more in our future. The right side needs to be worked on,as it is a little weaker than the left.

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Thomas J.

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zeb

I really like your maple group.
Why didn't anybody want it? Was it just so overgrown or was it in the famous bush-style?

Ossi Hanhinen

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eric

Thomas,
If you still want to get rid of it, I'm sure we all have to draw a number.
It's a great group of Acers, maybe it needs a little trimming but other then that... wish it was in front of my door with my other bonsai's.
Regards,
Eric

TreeBay

The silhouette is nice and the backlight makes the photo looks great. I can't tell in this light, but it seems there may be some problem with the trunks crossing over one another?

Regards,

Matt

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Tony

By golly it is a maple group! I couldn't make out the trunks until I brightened up the pic a touch.

Thomas_J.

Zeb;
the reason nobody wanted it was because it didn't resemble a bonsai at all. It was planted in an old oil drain pan. As I mentioned, it was probably about four ft. in height. If it wasn't for my wife telling me to reconsider before throwing it out, it woul be gone now. I'm glad I did and I'm glad the person who gave it to me didn't want it anymore.

Treebay;
Yes that one trunk in the front that crosses over is the only major defect. As we know this is a no no in bonsai. If I don't lose that trunk and develop new growth on the farthest trunk on the right, This will just be another ho hum specimen.

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ripsgreentree

Tomas J: Here is my openion of your maple group. The first item is the number of trees, I think that there are four as I can just bairly make out one in the back of the arangement. You may think of adding a tree or deleating a tree to achieve an odd number of trees. The next thing that I see is that all of the trees are the same hight. One tree croses the main tree and the second tree has an angle into the group. If you cut the crosser to be the shortest tree it would not cross the main tree and you could regrow a new crown and if you cut the second tree at the point that it angles into the group you could redirect it outward and re grow a new shorter crown. Now the three main trees would be of diffrent hights and you have kept the close trunks that are desirable and eliminated the two main problems that I see which were the fact that all of the trees are the same hight and the one tree croses the main tree. The thing to remember about forrest araingments is this trunk arangement is most importiant after rootage because it is most difficult to change, in maples branches and crowns can be placed and created any where you want them to be and can be removed and regrown at the artests will. I hope that this gives you some new angles to think about.
ripsgreentree

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Thomas_J.

Here's what it looks like after removing the trunk that crossed over.
Thomas J.

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TreeBay

Gettin' better! Might be a good idea to have the left trunk just 2/3 the height of the primary.

Or lose it all together... The silhouette is great, but the trunks moving together at the top defies logic a little.

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