Here are some of my trees. All are Amur Maple except one. The pictures are rather poor as the group pictures focused on the wall behind. I will try to do better when I publish pictures of the Pine group.
All of the trees here are but a year in the pots shown. The ones in big black pots are in progress and awaiting a final pot, which will not be cheep to acquire.
The guy at the bottom is an experiment. It is not working and I have decided to change the plan. It will look very interesting when I re-arrange it. (~10years old)
The one on the right is the only Silver Maple shown. It is a weed where I live and I have decided to see what can be done with it. Chopped out of the ground and transplanted a month ago, it is already new growth. This tree was a triple trunked tree and had been in a ~6 inch pot for 8 years. It had a very large group of roots out of the pot and had to be chopped back. I think that the Silver Maple will prove to be a durable subject with very small leaf size once maintained.
The bigger one in the middle of this picture is the tree recovered as detailed here: @sckoarn/a-recovery-project-amur-maple
It is doing well, and is staying green which is always a good sign. Once some new growth happens on the branches further down towards the trunk, I will be cutting it back. 3-4 inches off those branches you can see. (~10 years old) The little rectangular pot with the rock and tree is two years old. It lived through the winter and now as it branches out I can get it's height down.
The tree in the middle with no lower branch is 10+ years old, recovered from some over grown Amur I had a few years back. Want to make a canopy style, and next year will get into a decent pot. There are a couple 2 year old, root over rock, and some other recovered in the small square pots in front.
A closer view of some of the trees on the left. The center one in the off white pot only has 1/4 of living bark up the back side of this view. All of them have been trimmed but as you can see they all need some work and time.
This one is really nice. It is again ~10 years old and has been in this pot for about one year. It was transplanted into that pot last spring.
I will be posting a collection of Pine next. The local species have some interesting results when bonsai is applied.
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