Japanese Maple – December 2018 creation

I found this Japanese Maple for sale for $20 at a local hardware store.

Here it is as purchased:

Also, the planting guide, but is this ever useful?

Here’s the potting into an inorganic soil mix.

And then I got an idea from Nigel Saunders of the Bonsai Zone to use a sand base to host moss. So let’s try that.