Show us your Jap. Maple fall colours!

The red-leaved shrub is an Exbury Azalea....most deciduous azaleas have great fall colour too!

Great! I'll have to see if I can get one, they are supposed to be difficult to grow here due to the PH in the water. I bought a acid supplement for my soil, seem to be ok so far.
Where is St. Johns, NL?

Newfoundland, Canada...head to Boston then go north along the coast to the large island. St. John's is as far east in North America as you can get.

Wow, I have never heard of it. It's cool to talk with people from all over :)

Here's another seedling photo.

Fall colors of Acer Palmatum Verkades Winter Gold

Dave

Another View of Acer Palmatum Verkades Winter Gold
I will post pictures later of this plant with snow in the back ground if the conditions are right this year.

Dave

Beautiful tree Dave ...a great legacy from your Dad... I would suspect growing in your area ( which is not greatly differnt from mine) that the tree is many decades old maybe planted in the 60's or 70's ..am I close???? David

Actually David this tree was found in a seedling bed by my brother. I would have to think sometime around the early 1980's.

Dave

Wow ...thats pretty good growth...even for a seedling tree...but I guess 25 years is a long time I was guessing 30+ ...Pretty impressive IMHO...There are NO trees that size at the St. Louis botanical gardens...that must be much older.but varieties do vary..but photos are really hard for prospective... how tall and wide is it... I assume you weren't lying on the ground taking that pic ;>) HA!!!! so I assume it is really big.......and besides the size the shape, form and color are really nice.impressive!!!!... Now no photos with your kids standing next to it or a hired little person ....:>)))))) David

Neighbor's JM.

Well the tree is approx. 20' x 20'.

Dave

The fall fairy finlly visits NC. This is shirasawanum palmatifolium

Has anyone ever heard of this? It was sold as "Emmett's pumpkin" and must be a japonicum

edge of my woods

Very nice.



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Under the Canopy.


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Litter.

Beautiful Victor. You have such a nice grouping of JMs in your garden! This is sort of cheating. The tree in front is a ginko but there are two JM's behind it. Pretty colors anyway.

Thanks doss, but some of the shots were neighbors' trees.

Here's one more from this AM.

Here is one more, from the nursery today. I am still amazed at the beauty of this tree and the leaves where huge. Sorry about the big file size.

Hogyoku

palmatifolium

So what's the name of that cultivar Laura?
Very pretty J. I especially like the Hogyoku. What a great fall color!

It looks like an Aconitifolium ??? or maybe similar A.J. David

Yes, it is an Aconitifolium. And...Santa came early! It gets delivered this week. :-D

Finally getting a few colors at the Clemson botanical gardens.

Here is Aconitifolium:

The wonderful Osakazuki:

I'm really enjoying this thread! Don't stop now.

Seedling.

Stunning color and trunk on that seedling. Is the trunk colored too or is that just the photo?

No, but it is a darker brown color trunk.

Why graft a JM ? Is it o.k. to buy an ungrafted tree? Just curious.

If you buy an ungrafted tree there is no guarantee that it will turn out the same as the cultivar. Ungrafted trees are most often seedlings although some of them come from cuttings. If it is a cutting then it will be true to the parent but there is really no way to tell in a young tree. If you want a certain cultivar, the only way you can be really sure that you are getting what you want is to buy a grafted tree. I have several seedlings that I love. JM seedlings are generally hardier than grafted trees and can take more difficult conditions but you won't know the characteristics of the tree ahead of time.

Here is a trio of "Twombly's Red Sentinel" from the nursery this past weekend.

Beautiful Laura.

Here's sukushi gata. Not at it's peak which I missed. It's fall color isn't it's greatest attribute but it's such a pretty tree.

Oops forgot the photo.

Coral Bark's (Sangu Kaku) blushing bark:

Coral leaf petioles.

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The tops of the leaves, the younger bark blushes more brightly.