Japanese Maples In Your Garden
Japanese Maples look lovely in the nursery right now. New spring growth is brilliant!
If you are looking for an attention-getting accent in the garden, plant a Japanese Maple with its colorful bark and cut leaves. We have a broad selection of both green and red leaf varieties, coral bark and cut leaf specimens. Now is the time to take advantage of perfect planting weather and select Maples in their prime. Included in our collection this year are:
Emperor One – has dark purple-red foliage. In the fall it turns a brilliant scarlet-red color.
Bloodgood – offers cut, purple-red leaves that hold their color well through the summer. In the fall it has beautiful, crimson-red colored foliage.
Sango Kaku – features green leaves that turn brilliant yellow in fall. After the leaves drop, the stems show off a bright coral-red color.
Viridis – delicately dissected bright green leaves turn golden-yellow and red in the autumn.
Seiryu – this lace-leaf maple has finely dissected leaves that are tolerant of heat. Foliage turns to gold, light-yellow and crimson in the fall.
Most maples appreciate afternoon shade. The lace leaf types want shade or filtered shade all day. Maple leaves can burn during the summer months not only from the heat but also from the wind and our alkaline soil and water. Improve this summers leaves by supplementing your feeding with Dyna-Gro Pro-tekt through the early months of spring. Feeding with Pro-tekt in April and May provides soluble silica for the leaf-building process. The cell walls of each leaf are tougher and more resilient against the stressors of dry summer heat.
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