I was down at Stephen’s place for a few hours yesterday and took a few snaps of his Autumn colour.
Tag Archives: Trident
A Few Others From Yesterday
Some from my very wet and windswept benches.
My New Addition
This weekend I added this Root Over Rock Trident Maple to my Collection. I love working with Tridents and have always loved the root over rock ones that I’ve seen. I spotted this tree at Willowbog Bonsai a few weeks ago and Peter brought it over to NI for me on Friday. It has an interesting rock with a little pool area holding water and it looks like pretty decent ramification. Looking forward to seeing it bare in a few weeks time.
Farewell Old Friend
Last Photograph of my Trident Maple before I deliver it to it’s new owner tomorrow.
It’s been in my collection for about 10 years. Sad to see it go, however, as part of my efforts to reduce my collection size and up the quality, it had to go.
As it’s staying in Northern Ireland, I will still get to see it and watch it progress under new management.
Stephen’s Trident Part 2
I posted back on the 4th August about Stephen’s Trident. You can read the first part of this Trident’s recovery there.
This was it after the work on the 4th August.
This is the tree today.
To be honest, I didn’t expect this amount of growth at this time of year. No doubt it will hold on to leaves well into the winter. However, it will be tucked safely away in my greenhouse. Not bad for a tree suspected to be dead 1 1/2 years ago.
Trident Colour
Even over the last few days of colder weather I have noticed the colour seeping into a few of my Trident Maples.
First one just starting to change.
Visiting wasp.
This one was defoliated and has hardly a coloured leaf as yet. These red ones are more like late new shoots.
This other one however, is well on the way and has some lovely purple leaves. This one was also defoliated in May.
This Speckled Wood was also grabbing what little sunshine was on offer. He didn’t want to move away into the strong breeze.
Trident Maple Explained
I have several Trident maples in my collection and they are one of my favourite species to work with. I read this latest post by Peter Tea about his work with these trees in Japan. I picked up a few good pointers and was pleased to see that what I had been doing was heading in the right direction.
Here’s a photo of one of my Tridents.
and this is a link to the post by Peter.
PETER TEA- TRIDENT MAPLE HUSSLE
My Bonsai – Large Trident
Another tree added to the My Bonsai Tab.
This one is a Large Trident Maple. I’m not even going to attempt to figure out it’s size classification, I’ll just call it a ‘Big Wee Tree’ 😀
This is it in 2003
and in 2011
View page HERE.
Three Maples
I took a few record snaps of these 3 maples yesterday. All 3 were defoliated back in the Spring.
Shohin Japanese Maple
Stephen’s Trident
Back in the bad Winter of 09/10 Stephen’s Trident got a really bad freezing and lost practically every root. The whole apex of the tree died and for many months it just slowly died back along the trunk. It had an emergency repot in Spring 2010 to assess if there was any live roots. We couldn’t see any to be honest! It was potted into a wooden box with pure grit mix. In September 2010 it produced a few leaves on lower heavy branches. Any dead branched were then removed.
This year having sat happily in my green house it came into leaf and produced a few new strong shoots from the trunk. Those in the right places were left and the rest removed. After 4 weeks away I came home to find the Trident looking like this!
Extension of 20 inches + 🙂 This was the old front of the tree which is no longer viable as the apex is gone and most of this trunk is now deadwood.
This will be the new front of the tree.
The tree is currently putting energy into growth that will not be used within the future design, therefore this was removed and a few placement wires added to direct new shoots. This is the tree now.
Considering that this tree was all but dead in Spring 2010, Stephen is happy with the progress.
Bonsai Eejit 