Where to buy an affordable Japanese red maple?

[Ang3lfir3]

I don't know why but by the sound of it "oriental liquid amber", I thought it was some kind of vitamin/food for the tree

LOL .... i can kinda see where you are coming from there...

they are often called sweetgums .... that is a picture of the tree the fall after we purchased it... We have since repotted it this year into a better pot... maybe I will post some before and afters.

 

[Kiani]

LOL .... i can kinda see where you are coming from there...

they are often called sweetgums .... that is a picture of the tree the fall after we purchased it... We have since repotted it this year into a better pot... maybe I will post some before and afters.

Please do.

 

[daygan]

they are often called sweetgums

yeah.. and it's actually Liquidambar, not liquid amber. Not a maple at all - totally different genus.

 

[Ang3lfir3]

yeah.. and it's actually Liquidambar, not liquid amber. Not a maple at all - totally different genus.

If you read the post that suggests the liquidambar .... (yes they miss spelled it... shame on them) .... you will note that the original suggestion came from someone making a suggestion of another species that would be hardy in California... there was absolutely NO implication that they are in any way a maple.....

you have won the "Well actually guy" award for the day.... congratulations!

 

[daygan]

there was absolutely NO implication that they are in any way a maple..

okay.. I guess so. That post didn't seem to make that point clear to me, so I was just trying to add more information for the sake of more complete understanding. But maybe there was something in the previous posts that I skimmed over that would have made the point clear for one reading that particular post. Sorry if it came off like I was being a dick.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

With Japanese Maples, the first thing you need to know is that almost ALL of them will be grafts. Very rarely you may find a JM bonsai from a layer or cutting, but those are the exceptions. Because most trees will be grafts you have to look for the graft scar and make sure it is something you can work with / work around. Most JM trees for landscape will have a high graft that will always be obvious. JM cultivated for bonsai will often have a lower graft with special attention taken to hide the graft as much as possible.