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Weeping japanese maple
Weeping japanese maple










weeping japanese maple weeping japanese maple

I now understood why some branches seemed to just reach for the sky and others spread out. I have not really paid all that much attention to this feature in the past, but things really started to click when I did. Next, and just as important, is the fact that although maples have an opposing leaf structure, those opposing pairs rotate 90 degrees every other pair, making horizontal or vertical oriented buds. You can prune safely after the leaves have hardened in the spring, around April or May, but it is very hard to see the overall structure. In the spring, it provides entrance for fungi. It can extremely weaken the tree if you let it bleed profusely. So, if you prune in December, you get bleeding all over again. The tree then begins to heal over and seal up these areas and the sap re-pressurizes a few weeks later. Otherwise it would be pushing sap out of the points that just lost leaves. If it bleeds, wait another week.Īs the leaves start to abscise from the tree, the sap is also slowing down to a halt. I find that a good time is when there are just a few fresh leaves on the tree, but it’s lost all the others. I can now prune with confidence at a fairly feverish pace and the decisions fall easily right into place.įirst of all, the most important aspect here is the non-bleeding time of year. For some reason, after twenty years of pruning this type of tree, things really started to sink in, so I thought I would share some new and confirmed insights. Along the way, I pruned another large maple in the yard, as well as my mother in law’s maple, and another friend’s large specimen. I was able to cut it back a bit last year, mostly to keep it off the driveway.īut this was the year that I wanted to get in and do some real structural work. When moved to a new house, we inherited a ginormous weeping Japanese maple, front and center in the most prominent area of our yard. I pruned a few of the bonsai on my benches, but my main targets were the trees in my landscape. Last month I took advantage of the fact that there is a small window to prune Japanese Maples, just as their leaves are dropping, so that they won’t bleed.












Weeping japanese maple