How to choose a Japanese Maple such as Fire Glow & Autumn Moon!

hi I'm Dave Epstein welcome to this edition of growing wisdom and I've got a Japanese maple in my hand and they've also got Heidi cope to my right where it's don't get gardens in Lincoln Massachusetts and you really do specialize in Japanese maples and we're going to be talking today about just the huge variety of Japanese maples that exist so I said to Heidi I want to stop here and start with this pair of Japanese maples because the color contrast is just amazing so tell us what we have okay so we've got a fire glow red leaf upright Japanese maple it's a Sir Paul made um and then this one is autumn moon it's actually different species and they're both going to be upright probably this one's going to stay a little small very similar actually fire glow tends to not get more than about 15 feet autumn moon 15 to 20 maybe over a long period of time but they're both beautiful relatively small upright trees very ornamental and what-what a Japanese maples like in terms of habitat where will they grow best they're different ones prefer different kinds of conditions but they are all basically understory trees in Asia you know originally from Asia and so they can most them handle some shade and probably filtered sunlight a lot of the day is best for many of them the you know sometimes some of the gold leaf varieties tend to be to burn in too much Sun red leaf tends to prefer to keep their read better and more Sun but every single one is different they're literally thousands of varieties so Heidi they seem like they're smaller you know I have maple tree in the backyard that's 75 feet tall seems like the Japanese people just don't grow that large they are not like a sugar maple or a red maple in the sense that they're truly large shade trees most of them are going to be sort of multi-stemmed open more open and probably usually no more than about 30 feet in many years okay so here are a few Japanese maples used in the landscape and this is again a combination of conifers and Japanese maples and perennials and so we've got a very linear leaf maple which is called koto no ito very delicate very upright just a beautiful beautiful little maple this one is orange dream which again is a small maple probably will never get more than 10 or 12 feet my pod yeah it's broad I think it could probably get as tall as broad as it is tall eventually has beautiful new growth beautiful fall foliage bright bright orange and red fall foliage just a great little tree and another small Japanese maple over here red pygmy and it's an again it's not a dissecting it's a linear leaf a very long finger-like leaf with a little red a little green also small probably up to 15 tops just very pretty little maples that are great in the garden Heidi thank you very much this was great information I learned a lot and just a wide variety of Japanese maples in terms of color texture habit they are they're a great plant to have in they are wonderful thank you come back every week for all of our videos here at growing wisdom you

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Length: 4min 40sec (280 seconds)

Published: Wed May 08 2013