Exhibited
The Ledger Maple
Acer buergerianum
Started 1954, and every year of it written down
Broom · 78 cm · c. 140 yrs
£24,000
ImportedReserved
Kanzan
Pinus parviflora · Japanese white pine
Imported 1968, grafted long before that
Heavy, low and deliberate, on a graft union so old it has stopped being visible. The pads have been kept open on purpose: this is a tree meant to be looked through rather than at.
£38,000
Reserved
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.
Held for a customer. Ring the nursery if you would like to be told should it come back.
Through the year
- SpringCandles stand for a fortnight, then open
- SummerBlue-green, matte, unbothered
- AutumnOld needles yellow and are pulled out
- WinterBest month of its year
The tree
- Style
- Informal upright · moyogi
- Age
- About 90 years old
- Training
- In training since 1968 · 58 years
- Height
- 84 cm
- Spread
- 112 cm
- Pot
- Glazed rectangle, cream crackle, Bigei
- Keeping it
- Needle-pull in autumn, candle-cut in June, and leave it alone otherwise. It is at the stage where most of the work is deciding what not to do.
Where it came from
One of a consignment of eleven pines landed at Southampton in 1968 for a collector in Hampshire. Four are known to survive. This one passed through two hands before ours and has been photographed at every stage since 1974, which is unusual and worth as much as the tree.