I plan to add some JM's to a full afternoon sun siting with No shade trees at all. Zone 7A Long Island. For my greens and yellows, I have Summer Gold, Dancing Peacock, Mikawa and 2 test maples to see if it will scorch - First Flame and Moonrise I want to add a red. Want something a bit different and not a Emperor or the like I briefly considered GGW but not crazed about the Pink I only have space right now for 1 Red It will see sun starting around 8AM Peak Summer till like 8:30PM Right now, considering Pung Kil or something like Iijima Sunago (haven't researched how sun tolerant it will be). Would love some recommendations on a sun tolerant red/reddish JM. Temps is not the issue to some degree - it's just a full sun siting. Heck, it was 75F yesterday, a weird warm day in spring and even then , I was getting antsy doing garden work in this full sun siting
Good afternoon @mobiledynamics and welcome to the maples forum. I can vouch for Iijima Sunago, as I have mine in full sun and it does very well indeed, I am in zone 8b UK. It looks great planted near Summer Gold btw and I see you have that one already. Here are a couple of photos of my Iijima Sunago
Iijima Sunago acquired a few weeks ago...... Ha. I ended up removing something in the garden to make room for another red... Pung Kil, here we go.
