Maybe someone with vast (and varied) experience with this will chime in, but until that time I'll offer my anecdotal experiences: I have many JMs...
Ha, this is nothing. If this photo elicits comments about trees and power lines, you would be aghast during a stroll in my neighborhood. There...
[ATTACH] And the autumn color is... dark red
...and as if Yama kage knew I had told the internet he never has great fall color, he decides to have his best fall ever! Ha [ATTACH]
Aforementioned Beni kawa, photo taken moments ago. My fall foliage photos never seem to match what my eye sees, but trust me, this thing looks...
I'll add to this my experience with the Japonicums, renowned for their spectacular autumn color. I've had Green Cascades, Mai kujaku, and Yama...
Sulev makes a good point about the need to define an outcome for this putative study, and doing so might not be so straightforward. The OP defined...
Nice reply Otto, thanks. Like I said, I have respect for experience. And I do certainly agree with you regarding how we value size. One of the...
This thread has gone a few different directions. To summarize (as I understand it, and talking only about Japanese maple cultivars): If you are...
I've also been dubious about such advice, so it is very interesting to see your findings to the contrary (and that support what I have always...
If you want a guess, I'm going with Fireglow.
There are SO MANY possibilities with this one. And ultimately, it is quite likely that you will never know, unless you do it by finding out who...
I just rode by there to check and yup, they have graft unions at the base. Cultivars indeed.
My bet is that it is indeed a Crimson Queen, and the differences you're seeing can be explained by a variety of factors that that individual...
What Japanese maple has a tight dense growth habit and is somewhat columnar, with a typical palmatum leaf? This business has several of them...
