Japanese Maples

[ghar41]

I use them quite a bit for color and I really like having something growing so actively this early in the season.  Here are some pictures now that they are leafing...

[ghar41]

First picture was "Oshio Beni.  This is the coral bark "Sango kaku"

[ghar41]

'Beni shichihenge'

[Alicehunter2000]

There was a post a long time ago about using red maples. It looks good.....I'm just scared that it will destroy my goal of a tropical look. I already have to contend with a zone 9a palate. Got water oaks, turkey oaks and big regular maples.....which I will eventually cut. But I have to say that the red maples have a more tropical look about them........still not convinced.........more pictures please.

[ghar41]

The finer red leaf varieties are interesting

[ghar41]

Mixed with tropicals

[ghar41]

Oshio Beni

[DoomsDave]

[EXPLETIVE] the purists!

Those maples look great next to your palms.!

And, a lot better than they tend to look down here.  They like more season than we get but you do.

Can you grow lilacs, too?

dave

[ghar41]

Thanks Dave!  

Too many years went by admiring the other J.m's in my neighborhood....I had to get some of that color in my yard.  My yard no longer appears so "hot" in the dry season.

We get just enough chilling hours for them but not too many for a well placed King Palm.

[Kris]

Dear Glenn  

lovely stills and i love all the maples...but live in a zone too hot for them..

thanks & love,

Kris  

[Dave-Vero]

My hunch is that the beautiful red-leaved maples may be more popular in the US than back in Japan.  I ought to ask an expert about that.  Glenn's collection is wonderful.

[ghar41]

thanks dave,

The color contrasts are vivid right now.  The color does fade as the year progresses, but fall brings new reds, yellows, oranges, ect.

Oshi beni and Trachycarpus martianus (Nepal)

[_Keith]

It is a little early here to photograph as the Jap Maples are not fully leaved out, but I did snap this photo of my Thread-Leaf and Butia frond.

[Alicehunter2000]

(Dave from So-Cal @ Apr. 03 2008,23:07)

QUOTE

[EXPLETIVE] the purists!

dave

Dave.........why so angry?  ???  ::

[Alicehunter2000]

I noticed that red plums have as much or more intense color than the maples. I'm going to keep my eye out on both these types from trees around town.........see which ones do best here (drop leaves first in fall etc.). Both are real possibilities for future in my garden.

[ruskinPalms]

Well, I liked them in the last thread and I still like them. I think you guys concluded they would not do so great in the Tampa area. Maybe I am remembering wrong? I remember I brought up the deciduous thing, but then pictures were posted of some without leaves and they still had very colorful, interesting branches that contrasted well with the palms. Keep in mind that even Plumeria go bare in the winter and look like a bunch of turds on a stick for a few months....