Japanese Maples In The Garden
The leaves are reddish-purple in summer but tend to turn greener in full sun.
Japanese maples in the garden. Bloodgood is one of the most popular Japanese maple cultivars. Their striking texture unique form and beautiful colouring cant help but add value to your landscape. Most Japanese maples grow slowly and are ideal for containers.
Laceleaf Japanese Maple are in our opinion the most ornamental of the Ornamental Trees. At fall foliage time the leaves deepen into crimson red. The hardiness zone for this variety of maple is Zone 5.
Golden Full Moon Japanese Maple. We carry larger ones and each one is unique. But there are smaller maples that are much more versatile and can find a place in any garden.
The rest of the year the leaves provide spreads of colors and textures. Plant them as a feature plant in conifer gardens in partial shade garden beds accented by azaleas and shade perennials or in full sun garden beds with sun perennials and shrubs like abelia roses and more. The sunset Japanese maple likes to be in the sun when its in cooler areas and needs shade during the hotter months.
Growing low to the ground and wide they are always an intriguing showcase tree. Dark undulating branches create a variety of silhouettes in winter. There are hundreds of Japanese maple varieties that come in various sizes with a large assortment of leaf shapes and colors that range from shades of green to orange red purple and variegated.
This Japanese maple is larger than the Oregon sunset Japanese maple reaching a height and approximate width of 15 feet. Laceleaf Japanese Maples are slow-growing and thus expensive. Despite common preconceptions Japanese maples are not always dwarfish plants with red ferny leaves.