Another Japanese Shoshin Maple Bonsai

Maple trees make for very good bonsai. With leaf pruning and some wiring it is a lot easier to see the effects of your bonsai training. The twisty nature of some maples lend themselves to interesting bonsai trees. This tree although a young bonsai tree has the character of a much older tree.

Outdoor bonsai trees can only displayed indoor for a very short time, too long and you may end up killing your tree and all the time and love you put into it. So when you  are looking to display any bonsai, please take care that it does not stay too long.

Japanese Shoshin Maple Bonsai

The first display of a young Shoshin Japanese Maple. Bonsai is a cool way to shape nature to fit into a space where you can enjoy it. This tree is showing great promise, with some maturity and and pruning it will become a very nice bonsai. Already looking good with some nice trunk motion.
 The added plastic Sushi was not my idea, this tree as many of my trees is on display for one week at Lee's Japanese. A very good informal restaurant in northern New Jersey.

Japanese Maple On Rock

This maple started out as an Air-layering from an older tree that needed to be brought down to scale. Earlier in the spring I started to create this new Bonsai. Getting roots to grow takes some patience and some easily learned skills.

Japanese Maple Bonsai

The Japanese Maple is a favorite among Bonsai collectors, the rich colors and the ease of training make it a fun beginner and advance Bonsai. Here is an 3 year old tree that has been in and out of ground to gain size and age. Maples are good growers and if trimmed in June will produce smaller leaves.

Stripping off the leave with sharp sissors will help the tree grow an increasing number of leaves. The new leaves that grow will be much smaller and brighter in color. As the leaves grow in you may want to take off any that grow too large in order to keep scale.

Once all the leaves have been removed it is a good time to look at the overall shape and make some of the adjustments to its look. This tree has an uneven distribution of branches and needs to be changes.

Watch for my tips on How to Wire Your First Bonsai Tree