Q: My Japanese maple is behaving oddly. It has two types of leaves; part of it grows low to the ground with red leaves and the other grows straight up with green ones. How should I trim this strange ...

WHAT: Weeping Japanese maple, or Omurayama acer palmatum, has deeply dissected, palm-shaped leaves that provide interest from spring until late fall. New foliage starts out bright orange around the ...

Japanese Maples are always a homeowner favorite, and rightly so. Acer palmatum (or dissectum), aka Japanese Maples are mostly slow growing and therefore stay small for a very long time. Some varieties ...

The Japanese maple has no flowers to speak of. It is not a reservoir of life for native pollinators. It is somewhat expensive to buy and is slow to grow. Every garden should have one. Few other trees ...

"Read ‘em and weep," the poker players say. People who plant a weeping tree in their yard certainly won’t cry. Rather, weeping trees with their long drooping branches add a note of peace and ...

Japanese maples come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors, growth habits and foliage types, offering the home gardener myriad choices to suit their individual taste. All of these trees get ...