Seventeen
Zelkova serrata
Seventeen trunks on one slate, planted 1998
Forest planting · 74 cm · c. 44 yrs
£11,800
Hollow Way
Acer palmatum · Japanese maple, Deshojo
Root over ironstone, twenty years clenched
A Deshojo maple whose roots have spent two decades gripping a piece of Sussex ironstone and are now indistinguishable from it. Spring growth is a red you will not quite believe until you see it.
£7,400
Available
No tree leaves here on the strength of a photograph. Come and walk round it first — we will hold anything for a fortnight while you decide. Delivery is by hand, in our own van, anywhere in the British Isles.
Every tree goes with a year of aftercare: repotting when it wants it, winter cover, and a standing invitation to bring it back if it sulks. Most people use it. Nobody has ever been charged for it.
Arrange a viewingor ring the nursery on +44 1273 841 209
Through the year
- SpringCrimson on every new shoot, for weeks
- SummerSettles to green, and the stone takes over
- AutumnRed again, deeper and briefer
- WinterThe roots on the rock are the tree
The tree
- Style
- Root over rock · ishitsuki
- Age
- About 31 years old
- Training
- In training since 2005 · 21 years
- Height
- 52 cm
- Spread
- 61 cm
- Pot
- Shallow glazed oval, pale blue, Japanese
- Keeping it
- Morning sun only. Deshojo scorches, and the whole reason to grow it is a colour that scorching takes away.
Where it came from
Started in 2005 in a length of drainpipe packed with grit, as they all are, and unwrapped a fingerbreadth at a time from 2012 onward. The stone came out of the nursery’s own bank.