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Hello everybody, I have not posted here for a while. I would like to elicit the views of some of you on this cultivar which was bought a long...
I had never experienced having the maples hit by a hard frost (20°F) in the middle of their seasonal display. I am discovering how they behave...
In the Forum there have been many links to scholarly explanations of how fall colors form. The 'standard' theory is that by default the color...
Acer amamiense T.Yamaz is anew species from the Ryukyus in Japan. A. amamiense is described from Isl. Amamiohshima, the Ryukyus. This species...
This summer has been particularly sunny and hot in my area. We have had daily highs above 30°C (86°F) for 90% of the days since July 1st, with...
This new cultivar is a chance seedling from Acer amoenum 'Matsuyoi' found in 2008 in a garden in Southwest France and named after the first...
The unknown plant comes from central Japan. Leaves are opposite and decussate. Notice that the leaf base is incompatible with all known forms of...
This is an article I came through: http://ias.biodiversity.be/species/show/119 I believe that the Belgians are overdoing it, A. rufinerve does...
I have a friend with a red linearilobum (labelled 'Red Pygmy') which turns yellow in the fall. To me 'Red Pygmy' has bright red colors in the...
The Celts revered the trees present in the European forests of their time. They created a horoscope linking birth date with a specific tree. For...
Visiting an arboretum recently I noticed at their tiny nursery that they had for sale a maple with huge leaves labelled Acer miyabei (pictured...
A friend of mine showed me this page (Hikau genji ) from the online catalog of a well known French supplier. For American readers €1 = $1.3...
Southwest France is mostly zone 8b and, maybe due to global warming, many winters are actually more like zone 9 winters. Due to that, gardeners...
It is planted in my garden Gomero
This small tree used to be considered as part of the genus dipteronia, and named Dipteronia sinensis, which only contains another species,...
Spring wildflowers were pretty much non-existent in this part of the world (Toulouse region in Southwest France) due to a basically rainless...
Photo taken recently at a botanical garden in Hanover, Germany. Gomero
The other day a local, general purpose, nurseryman claimed that he had been successful dealing with Verticillium in maples with a Bayer systemic...
Does anybody have a link to a site where I could see, in a map, the natural distribution of Japanese maples? I have tried to find that info but...
The Maple Society has now a Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Maple-Society/193719400670462?v=wall, you are all welcomed...