Exhibited
The Ledger Maple
Acer buergerianum
Started 1954, and every year of it written down
Broom · 78 cm · c. 140 yrs
£24,000
The Cranbrook Elm
Zelkova serrata · Japanese grey-bark elm
A textbook broom, built the slow way
Chopped once, in 1981, and never again. Everything above that cut is forty-four years of pinching, which is why the shoulders are smooth and the crown divides as evenly as it does.
£9,600
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
- SpringA green haze before any single leaf reads
- SummerDense enough to shade its own trunk
- AutumnButter yellow, over in ten days
- WinterA fan of twigs, evenly divided
The tree
- Style
- Broom · hokidachi
- Age
- About 62 years old
- Training
- In training since 1981 · 45 years
- Height
- 66 cm
- Spread
- 71 cm
- Pot
- Unglazed round, dark clay, Reiho
- Keeping it
- Wind is the enemy of a broom — twigs this fine snap. Somewhere bright and sheltered, and cut back hard every February.
Where it came from
Field-grown in Cranbrook by a hop farmer who took up bonsai after retiring and did everything the long way round because nobody had told him there was a short one. He was right. We bought it from his daughter in 2016.
Alongside it
More from Heritage Specimens
- ImportedReserved
Kanzan
Pinus parviflora
Imported 1968, grafted long before that
Informal upright · 84 cm · c. 90 yrs
£38,000