TLDR: trying to find maple cultivars that are gorgeous yellow in fall color Hi I'm study this unusual topic bc I find that my partner is weak to identify red & green but he also like maple and I still want to make a colorful maple garden for him. I have 30+ Japanese maples and for most of them my partner cannot identify their beauty. He can tell bright red, but cannot distinguish dark red and greens. As a result, he prefers below cultivars that are yellow or bright orange * Akane or Orange Dream * Aureum * Emmett's Pumpkin But below cultivars looks just grey to him * variegated leaves -- usually green, white and pink variegated, but he see pink (a kind of red) as grey green. Same as variegated cultivars like rainbow or Fujinami Nishiki, he see dark or light red as grey * red cultivars -- usually red cultivars are just dark red not bright red, such as blood good. Not sure if he can identify the most red ones like spring beni-maiko * purple cultivars -- similar to red, since purple is darker, he see it as just grey Seems like yellow is the only option now.. Below are my collections * Dragon Master * Jordan * Autumn Moon * Aureum * Summer Gold I'm planning to get a Ki hachijo that is also farmous for its yellow color. If you know or recommend any yellow color or you have similar experience please let me know. Thanks a lot!
Found Maple Collector's youtube introduction for yellow spring colors: Hot Blonde Acer buergerianum 'Michael Steinhardt' Acer rufinerve 'Sunshine' Acer longipes 'Gold Coin' Mendocino Sunrise
Interesting topic! The following spring to mind: bi-hoo - has bright yellow bark too - that must be a good one. Katsura Anne Irene orange lace
Golden Pond? Aoyagi is famous for yellow fall color. Acer cappadocicum has some of the best fall yellow around (the plain species, not 'Aureum'). It's a very interesting investigation, which would make a great article. You should write it!
Thank you guys! I do have Katsura and yes my partner like the bright orange spring color! I think Katsura & Akane are in the same category And yellow barks are good idea too! Yeah yesterday I asked around and found another two of my gardening friends saying that their husbands are also color blind.. Google says the poplulation is 8% of men and 1% of women, which is quite a lot. My partner loves plants too and we have been visiting local nurseries together for years, but a lot of times when I pointed out the plants or flowers I loved, he said "that looks nothing special" which is disappointed.. So I finally decided to make a change to this problem. It is quite a challenge because I cannot see what he sees... The overall idea is that garden have to be mostly green, so red color is gone (unless it is bright red). The remaining colors are yellow and blue, but blue is very unusual in plants. Current plan is to get a combination of yellow-orange maples & blue shade flowers with green camellia as background
You're already looking at spring yellow, so I'll add A. platanoides 'Princeton Gold' to that, not a Japanese maple. You could update your location under Personal Details (click the user icon in the upper right) to give the area of the US where you live, maybe the state. That could sometimes make replies more appropriate for your climate.
