THE CULTIVATION OF JAPANESE MAPLES

Half-day seminars mornings and afternoons on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the spring, summer and autumn.

This seminar will dispel many of the myths associated with Japanese maples and demonstrate that they are among the most robust and rewarding of plants.

Topics dealt with include:

Propagation: how to collect and store seed to ensure prompt germination the following year; how to propagate from rare and expensive cultivars by means of layering and grafting. At the appropriate times of the year, participants will get hands-on experience of grafting and layering.

Plant care: watering, feeding, pruning.

Selection and training of maples for Bonsai culture.

Display: how to position maples relative to other garden features, to garden plants and to the sun. The relative merits of container growing as opposed to open soil.

The relative merits of growing named cultivars as opposed to acer palmatum species; and why common garden-centre names such as acer palmatum dissectum and acer palmatum atropurpureum are, at best, misleading.

How to get the best out of these beautiful trees: here at Arts in the Garden we have developed a repotting/feeding regime that ensures our container-grown maples give brilliant colour display not just for a few days in Spring and Autumn, but for fully half of the growing season!

 

Cost of half-day seminar: 48€ per person (Included in seminar price: choose up to three young maples to add to your own collection.)