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Update... picture taken today. When I took a closer look at the tree, and especially the photo, I did not really discover any buds at that time. Untill recently, I wondered if this tree was going to grow, or if I had made a bad buy. Then it started putting out buds, making leaves, and it did that rapidly. Can't say it looks great now, this tree is going to need work.

I'm probably going to let it grow for a few weeks though, let it build up energy.

Nice tree man!
What are you planning to do with it that it needs the extra growthenergy?

In my eyes I see that the branches would need thinning. I have to say, I cannot get over the spring colour of maples , nice tints of red and green, at least it is alive .

Kudos. Maples are not the easiest thing to grow. They are very slow growers. Or is that Azaleas? Can't quite remember. That is one thing I HAVE learned. To get that you must have done something wonderful.

Hope you have many happy years with it. I just wish I was able to get a result like that.

名媛直播Mackem wrote: Kudos. Maples are not the easiest thing to grow. They are very slow growers.

Depends on what you consider slow, but I don't think they are slow growers.

Hope you have many happy years with it. I just wish I was able to get a result like that.

It hasn't been doing very well. When summer came, it quickly dried out and leaves turned brown. Having seen quite a few tres die not long after acquiring them, I nowadays leave my new trees alone for the first year. AS this tree came from what's probably the best known bonsai-grower in the Netherlands, I expected it to do fine. That was a mistake. The tree is in Akadama that has fallen apart completely. That should not be such a problem, but it looks very much pot-bound. There's just not enough room for enough water to get it through the day. I have a bird-bath, and I've kept the pot in there during the warmest days, this summer.

It has grown though, and it needed thinning out. I've removed quite a lot of foliage. Next year I will repot it in a better soil. Hopefully it'll do better.

Picture after pruning:

I will be going to a garden center on Wednesday and hope to get a Maple. This Maple in the second pic is how they are sold. But according to some members you need to achieve something like the first pic.

Could the tree in the second picture ever be acceptable?

名媛直播Mackem wrote: I will be going to a garden center on Wednesday and hope to get a Maple. This Maple in the second pic is how they are sold. But according to some members you need to achieve something like the first pic.

Could the tree in the second picture ever be acceptable?

It is not really acceptable to hijack ones thread like this bonsai mackem. That being said.. You must develop a better eye. The tree you have in mind and the tree you are showing are some 50 years different in age. With the nursery plant you could go for something along these lines,

Auk, could you, once the leaves have dropped, do a side by side comparison of last year and this years image?

leatherback wrote: The tree you have in mind and the tree you are showing are some 50 years different in age.

That too... and they're not the same species either.

Auk wrote:

leatherback wrote: The tree you have in mind and the tree you are showing are some 50 years different in age.

That too... and they're not the same species either.

wanted to leave that can of wurms unopened