Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum

Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum
Japanese maples with great ramified branches...
The arakawa maple is one of the most popular trees in the bonsai world. Andrea Meriggioli shows why.
Grafting is a very useful technique for conifers such as junipers and pines.
A practical case study of trident maple by Andrea Meriggioli Andrea: I want to show you how correct timing and techniques may turn initially poor material into a good tree you can work on over…...
In autumn you can improve the branch setting of your maple The bare branch structure is revealed and good and bad things are seen. You’ll note where node length has become too long, whether there…...
If the branches only have twigs at the tips it is time for drastic measures. Andrea Meriggioli, author of ‘Bonsai Maples’, explains how to create a denser ramified maple using graft techniques A Japanese maple…...
How to create a bulky maple As I have said previously, this technique implies wrapping a number of young plants, seedlings, around a man-made structure, called a ‘frame’. Its shape will be the one the…...