Re: Japanese Maple, When to trim?>
- To:
- Subject: Re: Japanese Maple, When to trim?>
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:17:29 -0500
Tim, Don is right. Habit is cultivar specific in Japanese maples and not
achieved by pruning. You really need to know exactly which cultivar you've
got to figure out whether it will naturally be weeping or upright. If, at
four feet, it seems to want to grow upright, that's probably what it will
do and IMO pruning it to try to make it weep will only ruin its form, not
help it.
Foliage Gardens lists many cultivars with some photos and had a page of
information about Japanese Maples. URL is:
http://backyardgardener.com/Foliagegardens/abmaples.html
Here's a Japanese site with photos of several cultivars; perhaps you will
recognize yours...URL is: http://www.inh.co.jp/~hayasida/E-repo12.html
Dave's Nursery might be a better bet to help you ID your plant - has photos
of several varieties of cut leaf maples - it's in frames, but I think this
URL should take you to the maple page:
http://www.davesnursery.com/acer.htm
Mountain Maples site also has a lot of photos of different maples...might
be helpful, plus a good article on aesthetic pruning of Japanese
maples...URL to the article is:
http://mountainmaples.com/cgi-bin/article2.cgi/echcbffhg
URL to their photogallery is:
http://mountainmaples.com/cgi-bin/album.cgi/echcbffhg
It is possible that they might be able and willing to ID your specific
plant if you can send them a photo...I think it well worth sending them
email to find out. You really do need to know who you're growing so you
know what to expect and how best to care for it ;-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
current article: Mailorder Nurseries - On and Off Line, Part 10, The
Primrose Path
http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/222
All garden topics welcome page:
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/3425#top5
----------
> From: Tim Chavez <timchavez@netscape.net>
> Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:24 AM
>
> Hello folks,
> I have a 4 ft Japanese Maple, sold as a "Cutleaf Japanes Maple" although
I
> don't know its Latin name. I sawe a lot of them in Maryland and most had
been
> trimmed into a weeping pattern. I presume this is a Bonsai technique,.
> Anyway, Mine is fairly upright and I would like to give it a weeping
habit if
> possible. First, when is the right time of year to trim it? and second,
> Should I just clip off the verticals above the height I want it?
>
> I have a digital camera and can send pics to anyone who can handle the
> attachment.
>
> Tim, Chavez
> Wichita Kansas z6
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE WOODYPLANTS
