Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Please help me save my Japanese Maple!, 2 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I hope there is a warranty on it. You may be taking it back in a year or two if it dies.

I always get the one gallon sizes (15 to 20 dollars) and move them to a 3 gallon pot, after one year they go in the ground, and I get another 3 to 4 one gallon sized plants and repeat. If I lose one here or there, then I haven\'t lost a lot of money or a lot of work digging a hole. In a few years you will have some big JMs that would be hard to dig up.

I hacked my 15 year old weeping cut leaf JM this past winter so it would not block the dining room windows for Xmas wreaths. It has come back fairly nice but eventually I may have to get rid of it completely as this extreme pruning is a lot of work.

You can hardly see the top of the windows in May 2017 (and I do prune the side limbs and top every year). Pruned hard in early December 2018. Further pruned later on and new growth coming out in April this year. A month later. Final picture was the third week in July.