I don’t love my acer any more. I used to, but now I want a more natural garden. I love minimalist foliage gardens but that’s not MY garden. Other reasons I don’t love it:

Last year it looked horrible. It is mostly in shade, but it couldn’t take the endless sun and had curled up brown leaves very early on.

It is too bushy now. It looks more like a muppet than a sculpture.

I am not going to kill it or move it (which I think would kill it). So acting on a tiny bit of knowledge that I overhead and don’t quite remember, I have chopped it this January to try to give it a bit of structure and maybe make it more like a woodland underneath. Let’s see what happens…

April 2021

It’s looking nice. Not sure it will last but the prune didn’t kill it!