Soup Dragon
Mame
I bought this coral bark maple as the bark color is wonderful (in the photo it looks dull, but it is a very intense red). My plans for this year are to use it for propagation, and I will air-layer off a few branches and experiment with cuttings.
In the future though I will want to look at using the main plant for bonsai. I can obviously layer the tree above the graft line, and that would produce the best design for a future tree in any case, but was curious about whether the bark on the tree would mature to hide the graft point over time. The graft is very neat, with just a slight swelling, and is only very obvious due to the change in color. Mature bark on a coral bark tree is grey, and so I wonder if over time the graft point would become indiscernible.
Thanks!
In the future though I will want to look at using the main plant for bonsai. I can obviously layer the tree above the graft line, and that would produce the best design for a future tree in any case, but was curious about whether the bark on the tree would mature to hide the graft point over time. The graft is very neat, with just a slight swelling, and is only very obvious due to the change in color. Mature bark on a coral bark tree is grey, and so I wonder if over time the graft point would become indiscernible.
Thanks!