Some readers have been asking me to see examples of my Dragon-Eye Pine Tree, and how I have been pruning it. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m new to Niwaki pruning, and have been learning over the past 2 years. But some photo’s may be useful to newbie Niwaki-ers. Below I’ve laid out [ Read More ]
This is the first of 3 blog entries about pruning. This entry is specific to pruning a Japanese Maple Tree (Acer Palmatum). This plant has a few eccentricities, which make pruning slightly different from how you would prune any other tree. After spending time working on my 2 Japanese Maple trees, and also reading up [ Read More ]
Niwaki is much more then Japanese Pruning, but for my purposes here, it will have to stand. Wikipedia defines it as follows: “The technique of niwaki is more about what to do with a tree than the tree itself. While Western gardeners enjoy experimenting with a wide range of different plants, Japanese gardeners experiment through [ Read More ]
