Hollow Way
Acer palmatum
Root over ironstone, twenty years clenched
Root over rock · 52 cm · c. 31 yrs
£7,400
Seventeen
Zelkova serrata · Japanese grey-bark elm
Seventeen trunks on one slate, planted 1998
A forest built on an odd number, as they must be, with the heaviest trunk forward and left and everything else deferring to it. Twenty-seven years in, the roots have fused and it now behaves as one organism.
£11,800
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
- SpringThe back of the group leafs out first
- SummerA single canopy, seventeen sources
- AutumnYellow, unevenly, over about three weeks
- WinterTrunk spacing finally visible
The tree
- Style
- Forest planting · yose-ue
- Age
- About 44 years old
- Training
- In training since 1998 · 28 years
- Height
- 74 cm
- Spread
- 138 cm
- Pot
- Welsh slate slab, cut to shape
- Keeping it
- Water the whole slab, not the trunks. Thin the interior every spring or the middle of the group dies out and you are left with a ring.
Where it came from
Planted in 1998 from a batch of seedlings all grown from the same parent, which is why the group reads as one wood rather than a collection of individuals. Two trunks have been removed since — in 2007 and 2019 — both because they had become too interesting and were pulling the eye.