Here's a pic of my 'Omure Yama', commonly called the weeping willow maple. It grows upright but has weeping branches, so it will get much taller than the more common weeping cultivars such as Inabare Shidare or Waterfall. The leaves are green with a slight pink tint in summer but turn orange-yellow, rather than red, in the fall.
Very pretty. I especially like the pink leaves. Is that the new growth? Dotti
The pink tint is indeed on the new growth.
hiya Todd,
that's a really exquisite specimen. I really envy your humidity when it comes to plants such as this.
fabulous,
don
An update....this is Omure Yama as of Oct. 22
Todd, that is to die for. Well, there add's another one to my wish list of plants. My DH is already threatening to tear up the hard copy of the list and delete the list on the computer. Too many plants, too (way too) little money! (Sniffle!Sniffle!
Dotti
Edited to ask: Did you ever put this cultivar in the PF? I couldn't find it under the cultivar name. If you can't find it there either, will you please enter it? It's a tree well worth being there. Dotti
This message was edited Oct 22, 2005 1:17 PM
It's there under the wrong spelling....I just fixed it
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/75000/
Thanks, Todd. I had just gone through the list of Japanese Maples (looking for some of the other cultivars you mention) and found it. Hurried back to tell you to forget my edit and you had beat me to it. It's a beautiful tree, and so are the others on the other thread. By the way, if I may ask, how many Japanese Maples do you have? Dotti
My garden is small...I only have 11 JP along with a Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' and A. pseudosieboldianum (JP wannabe's)
Omure Yama is really lovely - now where could I possibly put another Japanese Maple???
