Garden palmatums
Posted: July 7th, 2019, 8:17 pm
These 2 Acer palmatums were both seed grown and appeared to have dwarf characteristics - short internodes and smaller leaves and slow growth. I offered them to the head gardener for a couple of spots in the garden. 
They have slowly grown and now the head gardener has decided both were getting a bit too big for the space allocated so they had to go. I volunteered to remove them for her
It took nearly 30 min to get the larger one out of the ground Trunk is actually a fair size now And roots are reasonably good for a tree that has newer been root pruned before Long roots are shortened and downward roots reduced even more then excess top growth is removed The other one is a bit smaller so may possibly be even more dwarf. Few fine feeder roots this time, just a few larger roots heading down. I've still shortened them substantially so I can fit it into a pot. The first of these trees has 2 distinct growth patterns. Some shoots have very short internodes and compact growth but other areas have normal long internodes
I have also noted that after pruning this one dies back around the pruning sites worse than many other palmatums and seems to go into the short internode dwarf growth for a year or so around pruned sites.
Not sure how that will affect its suitability for bonsai but I'll work with them to see what happens.
They have slowly grown and now the head gardener has decided both were getting a bit too big for the space allocated so they had to go. I volunteered to remove them for her
It took nearly 30 min to get the larger one out of the ground Trunk is actually a fair size now And roots are reasonably good for a tree that has newer been root pruned before Long roots are shortened and downward roots reduced even more then excess top growth is removed The other one is a bit smaller so may possibly be even more dwarf. Few fine feeder roots this time, just a few larger roots heading down. I've still shortened them substantially so I can fit it into a pot. The first of these trees has 2 distinct growth patterns. Some shoots have very short internodes and compact growth but other areas have normal long internodes
I have also noted that after pruning this one dies back around the pruning sites worse than many other palmatums and seems to go into the short internode dwarf growth for a year or so around pruned sites.
Not sure how that will affect its suitability for bonsai but I'll work with them to see what happens.
