hi, i just received an acer pictum usugumo from esveld (thanks emery!!) i was wondering about the place to put it in the ground i read amny things on usugumo and acers pictum and they seem to be less fragile than palmatum particularily than variegated ones does it seem correct for you guys? is there owenrs of this tree that can comment on this please? i am about to put it in the ground in a place where it will have full sun between 15h and 19h, that means 4-5 hours of full mid afternoon sun. Because i live "in the forest" the soil is always moist and in the morning even if there is a heat wave the soil remain fresh it will have nearly no sun in the morning and it is a quite sheltered place for winds what do you think of it? thanks samuel
I disagree based on my experience. I have two 'Usugumos' from two different sources and I would place them among the most delicate maples in my garden. Gomero
Mine is growing in about the same conditions as you are thinking about planting yours, maybe gets a little drier. It has thrived, also dealing with much lower temps than yours will get (like -26.1 celcius). The only caution about mine is that the variegation is much more subtle than many of the pictures I've seen online. From a distance you would not know it's variegated. I need to find one that is more white, but I agree with you it does not seem fragile at all. Kay
news in the "Maples for the garden"similar to Gomero news,however,in villa Taranto,Pallanza, Italy ,Usugumo is in total shade..
I find Hoshi Yadori to be an easy plant, do you Gomero? Also Akikaze nishiki is not difficult. If you agree with the proposed move from truncatum to pictum. The large Usugumo in the Esveld aceretum seems to get a fair amount of afternoon sun. But it did show some burning when I saw it 2 years ago. My little Usugumo, also from Esveld's plant, gets some morning full sun, and some in mid-afternoon. Otherwise it is shaded by birch trees, i.e. not that heavy a shade. It has strong variegation and so far seems tough enough, given that it was caught in early leaf by a heavy frost and didn't really die back. I only put mine in the ground last fall so I can't really say it's established yet, but seems to be doing fine (hope I'm not jinxing it...) That sounds like a lot of sun, but is about what my Hoshi yadori gets, which is doing well. I'd try to back off on the light a little bit, Samuel. Soil sounds great though. Congratulations! -E
