DanS
Seedling
As a caveat, I'm relatively new to bonsai, and this in my first posting to this forum.
In a neglected area of my yard I noticed a small sugar maple, maybe 2 years old. It is about 1.5 to 2 feet tall with a trunk about 0.25 inch in diameter, so it has a lot of growing to do, but I was wondering how sugar maples do as bonsai. Do the leaves reduce as seen with trident maples? I've dug it up and placed it another part of the yard in a LARGE dirt ball to avoid disturbing the roots. If it can be used as bonsai material, should I start trimming it and doing some rudimentary shaping to make it easier to use as bonsai in say 5 years? I know trees always grow better in the ground, but would there be any advantage to placing it into a large pot?
Thanks,
Dan Sprague
In a neglected area of my yard I noticed a small sugar maple, maybe 2 years old. It is about 1.5 to 2 feet tall with a trunk about 0.25 inch in diameter, so it has a lot of growing to do, but I was wondering how sugar maples do as bonsai. Do the leaves reduce as seen with trident maples? I've dug it up and placed it another part of the yard in a LARGE dirt ball to avoid disturbing the roots. If it can be used as bonsai material, should I start trimming it and doing some rudimentary shaping to make it easier to use as bonsai in say 5 years? I know trees always grow better in the ground, but would there be any advantage to placing it into a large pot?
Thanks,
Dan Sprague