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74 Top trees: Seasonal beauties

Japanese maple

Acer palmatum ‘Deshojo’
Key features
Think deciduous bonsai and chances are you will ∙Young shoots and foliage
picture a maple. There are several cultivars, each can be sensitive, so protect
them from wind and frost
with a different growth habit and leaf type. The
in spring until the leaves
popular, elegant ‘Deshojo’ offers particularly fine have hardened off.
red fall foliage but is lovely at other times
∙To refine the branching,
of year, too. Enjoy its spring bud create less length between
break, its cooling green the nodes. That means
summer foliage, and its pinching off the central
stark winter image— shoot between the opening
leaves as soon as possible.
as well as its
Not fertilizing early in
fall colors. the year helps, too.

Looking closer
Five-lobed leaves are especially
vulnerable to damage caused
by intense heat and wind.
Defoliation reduces the size of
the leaves and causes another
burst of growth, but it also
weakens the tree. You must
be careful how much and Avoid over-dense
how often you defoliate. branching by thinning
out nodes with
multiple branches
Aim to develop
a shallow Bark turns
brown or
root system
light gray
with age

36in / 90cm tall
Courtesy of Peter Chan