acer rubrum

These are about full size... just massive!

Here is my contest tree. Red maple dug March2020. I gave it all season to recover Here it is in fall and then today

i started an air layer in june at my parents place in northwest wisconsin, zone 3. hoping to use this thread to document the progress, provided i can keep this poor bastard alive i will preface this post by saying this is the largest air layer i've attempted, my first deciduous tree, and...

End of year. Still has some color. Looking ok but bud development is not as strong as other Rubrum which I have. Age: 2yr Training: 1yr Width: .25 Height: 7" Front: From right: Back: From left:

End of year: Age: 2 Training: 1 Width: .28" Height: 9" Front: From Right: Back: From left:

This was my first Red Maple. I collected it at the same time as my Boxelder Maple from the front garden. It was originally collected in late July 2018 and potted into a 4" plastic pot. It was overwintered with my Boxelder Maple. Overwintering... this was when the roots had completely frozen...

Wired this tree today. It has an interesting root base which I plan on using as root over rock. Currently growing the roots over a stone under the soil. Collected this spring in front garden. Soil is 8822 topdressed with Sphagnum Moss. Fertilized with osmocote 14-14-14 all purpose slow release...

Here is Judy's piglet less refined, dirty south cousin. 3 years in the making. Year one I chopped the tree down while it was still in the ground. Year two I chopped it again from the new leaders it had grown and did some basic trunk selections leaving about 5 or so. Year three I dug up all...

So I got this red maple(which I understand is not a good bonsai specie) as an impulse buy while at Home Depot. Can anyone who has played around with A. Rubrum before tell me how much abuse it can take this time of the season? Can it take both significant chop + repot? Or should I just wait...

Thought I would share one of my on going projects with the kind folks here at B-nut. In October of 2005 my wife and I took a trip to Argentina. One of our stops was in the northeast part of the country along the Argentine-Brasil border in the state of Misiones. Weather wise, Misiones is...