hollow field maple
April 2006
Februar 2008 before
This maple was mcuh higher and it lost the major part of the trunk. I wondered whether it would ever become a decent bonsai. It was declared "useless" by a couple of experts who saw it in my garden. Wolfgang was one of them. Wolfgang, are you watching??
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