Cheering ourselves up with Maples

Hi everyone, a couple of photos of Dr Brown. I love this tree. Hope you like it to.

 

Yes - lovely pic of new leaves unfurling. I have only ever seen this one in the Amazing Maples videos. How long have you had this cultivar?

 

Thanks Acerholic. I love them all yes. So far the Shigatatsu Sawa is my favourite of the 3 but I'm not sure how long that bright green colour and contrast will last. Not long enough!

 

Hi Luke, only had it for 3 years now, I'm the same saw it on Amazing Maples and had to have it. I got mine from Esveld in Holland.
Yes the original to all the ghosts is Shigitatsu Sawa, it really is special. Needs a bit of protection from tbe sun though. This heat might cause a few problems with young leaves.

 

Hi again everyone, I just had to post this one, 'Ruby Stars' or for our US friends 'Beni Hoshi'
It's just waking up !!! Hope you like it, cheered me up this morning.

 

Very nice indeed. I love the leaf shape, it's quite unique.

 

Hi Luke, just posted the photo of mine to SLR2009 as wanted to know if theirs was Ruby Stars/ Beni Hoshi.

 

Its probably quite difficult to tell until the leaf has fully opened. Please post a pic once it has.

 

Will do

 

first leaves 'Beni Otake'

 

Hi wind-borne, great pics, you got number 3 just right.

 

Filigree..I love this cultivar
Beni Schichihenge flowers
Aconitifolium flowers
J. Moonrise

 

What amazing shots. Incredible.

 

Hi dicky5ash, totally agree re Filigree. 4 wonderful pics, the close up of Aconitifolium would be worthy of a BBC nature programme. Thankyou for sharing these.

The artistic photography of maple enthusiasts on this site is mind blowing.

 

I agree on Filigree, love this one, one of my favourite Disectums.

 

Hi all, a Seiryu and Hogoromo sunbathing today in my garden. Nature goes on thank goodness, no matter what.

 

Hi SLR2009. Taylor is brand new to me. I had it in full sun until 430 and it seemed to be doing great. But we had a good bit of rain with high wind the last 2 days and it does not like high wind. So ive moved it into the green house to recover from leaf burns.

 

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE, just took these pics of my 6 ghost maples as they have just started. Hope you like them. They are :- Sister, Uncle, First, Amber, Grandma and Purple Ghost.
Our grandchildren think they are spooky so

 

Whoops pressed the wrong button, must be all that chocolate. Here they are.

 

Just found this one as well , it looks so much like a ghost but its Olsons Frosted Strawberry . As I was saying earlier, our grandchildren think all of these are spooky, so they do bring a smile to our faces. Hope they do you also.

 

Acerholic, thanks for sharing. I love them all. Hard to pic a favourite.

 

Bless, getting quite the thunderstorm out there at the mo, the first rain in a long time, and (having eaten some chocolate already), a prefect chance to upload a few of the pictures I've been taking over the past few days. Of course it's turned to hail now, boff. Well, there's a cup of tea in it, anyway. (Yikes, marble sized hail now, hoping it doesn't do for the apple crop, just getting ready to blossom...)

Here we have

Acer sinoppurpurascens now in full bloom
Acer pubinerve, the "Chocolate Maple" leafs out almost black. Formerly known as A. wuyuanense
Acer chingii, a very unusual Chinese maple, in mature leaves the middle lobes are perpendicular to the center lobe

Acer sinsense, another Chinese maple, these have very large (15 cm) leaves here.
A. sieboldianum 'Shoryu no tsume' just leafing out
Another very attractive Chinese maples, A. flabellatum ssp yunnanense. It was formerly considered a ssp of campbellii.
A sycamore selection that leafs out orange, then has nice variegation. Evaluating, but will surely be a cultivar.
Wild cherries in the hedges, gorgeous now
Acer diabolicum now starting to leaf out
Just a view back into the aceretum with the late sun catching the still bare branches of A. x conspicuum 'Phoenix' You can see much is still bare, but starting to soften up a little at last.

-E

 

Hi emery, you have the most wonderful and diverse selection of Acers I know other than Westonburt!!!!! The photos are fabulous, I especially like the yellow Sycamore (it glows).
Sadly when I showed these photos to my wife looking longingly at her as to say I would like to buy a few, all I got was a very long Nooooooo!!

Great to have this site to share everyone's trees.

 

@Acerholic that's very nice of you! Westonbirt is quite a comparison!! Well I have been working on it for a long time, and I know I still have many miles to go, but sometimes I do feel like progress is being made. So thank you.

The sycamore is really a good one, it makes itself known all the way across the garden! It's one of 3 selections I'm currently evaluating in the ground, the only one I don't have a good name for! When it gets big enough to graft on, probably another 2-3 years, I'd be happy to send you one.

Although it's still a bit early for the sycamores to be showing out completely, here's what they looked like today:

'Leat's Cottage'

'Brigada Revolution'

'Souffrettes'

'Prince Camille de Rohan'

'Brilliantissimum'

'Esk Sunset'

'Corstorphinense'

'Puget Pink'

'Nizetii'

 

Hi emery, our gardens are never finished but that's the fun of it. Another 10 lovely photos of your Acers. And thankyou for your kind offer.
Hope they all survived the hail stones today. We possibly have frosts tomorrow and Tuesday, so there is always something to worry about!!