I'm enjoying these threads Al. Literati is a style that we need more of on the forums.
Not at the present, maybe in a couple monthsany updates on this tree @Bananaman ?
just started looking into maple literati and this is the first thing that came up
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Actually I don’t think it’s impossible, I have seen a trident once which was very elegant and definitely had a Literati feel to it. It was very playful, but the styling also looked nowhere near a conifer literati. That’s probably the key ingredientIt looks like a stick in a pot to be honest. Why are you wasting time trying to make a good literati out of this species?
Why are you wasting time trying to make a good literati out of this species?
in your view it is not possible to make a 'good' literati out of japanese maples in general?
lately i have been collecting photos of literati trees, and i'm not convinced that something like the shapes in the attached photos, for example, could not be interestingly achieved with, say, an arakawa maple. i'm speculating. would love to hear your thoughts.
@Paulpash it sounds like you might have meant specimen, not species, but also meant species?
in your post that i quoted above you discounted all maples by saying the 'species' was no good for literati, but you now seem to be using a single 'specimen' (Al's tree) to justify that claim?
i'm actually genuinely interested in learning about maples as literati, which is why i posted here. do you think the entire species (i.e. all maples) is bad for literati?
Why are you wasting time trying to make a good literati out of this species when there's Pines and Junipers to produce a much higher quality tree?
Can you find one to make me have a change of heart?