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Visited Meehan’s today mostly for soil (not, as we discussed, dirt. One dishes dirt, while one purchases soil) but had to also dig through the greenhouses a bit and found this maple with some potentially nice lines.
I did not realize what it was until i showed it to Martha who said it was a cutting grown Arakawa, at which point I offered to let her double the price if she wanted. You can see the bark splitting at the base.
My initial thought was to prune it like this:
Which looks better in 3d than in the pic. But now, for some reason after learning what it was, I’m thinking less radical, more like this:
The slightly unfortunate swelling around the thick branch stub will have to be worked on. Regardless of its development stage or potential I’m just happy to have one of these finally and look forward to it’s long slow development.
I also came home with a nice old variegated porcelain berry and a “little gem” spruce.
I did not realize what it was until i showed it to Martha who said it was a cutting grown Arakawa, at which point I offered to let her double the price if she wanted. You can see the bark splitting at the base.
My initial thought was to prune it like this:
Which looks better in 3d than in the pic. But now, for some reason after learning what it was, I’m thinking less radical, more like this:
The slightly unfortunate swelling around the thick branch stub will have to be worked on. Regardless of its development stage or potential I’m just happy to have one of these finally and look forward to it’s long slow development.
I also came home with a nice old variegated porcelain berry and a “little gem” spruce.