Q: My Japanese maple is behaving oddly. It has two types of leaves; part of it grows low to the ground with red leaves and the other grows straight up with green ones. How should I trim this strange ...
One plant that simply must be present in every yard is a laceleaf Japanese maple. You know the ones: the beautiful, manageable-sized trees that have interesting leaves in stunning colors all ...
'Murasaki Kiyohime' is a great dwarf Japanese maple with dramatic spring color showing red-purple leaf borders with green centers. Its fall color is yellow, orange and red. Howard Garrett / Special ...
I love maple trees but do not have room for large trees on my small lot. I see a lot of Japanese maples. Are they good choices for our area? Other than flowering small trees, Japanese maples are the ...
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Q : Do you know what kind of Japanese maple tree this is? It is 25 years old and dying due to improper planting, according to an arborist who inspected it. These are pictures of it 10 years ago (see ...
It's now March, a time of the year when you never know what kind of weather we'll have. One day it's below freezing with snow and then, a few days later, temperatures are in the 50s or 60s. But ...
WEST SEATTLE GARDENER Bill Hibler loves maples, so much so that he has about 160 trees in his collection, and that’s not counting seedlings. “Most are in pots, but there are several fairly mature ...