JAPANESE LACELEAF MAPLES

These images were shot following six consecutive years of carefully considered pruning. For optimal results both time and patience are required. These are dynamically alive organisms that will vigorously react to whatever’s done to them and either neglect or haste generally results in undesirable outcomes. Not all trees respond in the same way to pruning. Unlike Maples with a more upright vertical growth pattern that benefit from occasional pruning, this  type of Maple requires frequent judicious pruning for best results. While these are true tree’s, they possess very shrub-like growth characteristics and the more sunlight they get, the more thickly they grow and more shrub-like they appear, thus requiring more frequent attention to maintain their potentially breathtaking, traffic stopping appearance.