Everyone loves a Japanese maple, or at least that’s the way it seems. Even novice gardeners will often have a maple at the top of their must-have list. There’s more than one reason for the continuing ...

My variegated cream and green-leafed Japanese maple is just beginning to leaf out. To be honest, I thought I'd killed it. I bought it last year on impulse and left it in its plastic wrapper down the ...

Hayloft plants have a most unusual offering in their brochure this year called Acer Duet – two separate Acer dissectum plants, Crimson Princess and Viridis, gently wound together to give contrasting ...

WHEN you think of Japanese maples, most people think of flaming red and orange autumn leaves. So for something different, try a variety that turns yellow – one of the best is Acer palmatum “Sango-kaku ...

More and more gardeners are creating colourful landscapes using foliage rather than flowers. Japanese maple trees are especially useful in this context for providing beautiful colour as well as great ...

A Japanese maple entered my life 15 years ago. At $20 it was the most expensive plant I'd ever bought. That small tree, Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Atropureum,' would now cost about $3,000. Every time ...

How can I revive a suffering acer? I bought a healthy, pot-grown Acer palmatum dissectum (0.5m high) earlier this year and it's now looking very sorry for itself, with brown-edged, perishing leaves. I ...

Of all the trees that blaze in autumn, none burns quite so fierce as Acer palmatum , which we think of as a Japanese maple, but which, in fact, originated in central China. It has many different ...