It's so much fun growing maples from seed. Always looking for the odd one out that could become a top of the shelf specimen... ;-)
On a rainy day: Celebration Autumn Moon Shirazz Amber Ghost Rainbow Sumi Nagashi Amagi Shigure Olsen's Frosted Strawberry Peaches and Cream Lileeanne's Jewel:
Very nice, Julie. My 'Rainbow' has very little variegation this year, except on a lower branch. Anyway, I won't cut off 4/5th of the tree ! The top of the tree with one odd variegated leaf here and there : The bottom branch :
I've heard of those. They mentioned on the News it had rained in Bretagne. We are still waiting in Normandie, and I will very soon have to water new plantings. Here are some more. A lot of the green dissectums are pretty similar, just like a lot of the red dissectums. But they do make good understory plantings, to fill in spaces between upright trees. Here is a chance to rant about two of my favorite Japanese language errors. Firstly, "yatsubusa" [archaically yatsufusa, but the internal 'f', swallowed when fusa is used alone, becomes a 'b' sound in modern Japanese. This is called rendaku.] does not mean "dwarf"! As anyone who has one of these for a long time will testify, they get pretty big. Literally it means eight-bunches (八房), but practically speaking it means tightly-clustered leaves, many bunches. So "yatsubusa" means (rather awkwardly) "a bushy form with many tightly-clustered bunches [of leaves]". Secondly, "Koshimino" is never written as two words, any more than is Raincoat. Which is pretty much what it is: 腰蓑, a koshimino, describes a traditional grass or straw rain garment, worn from the waist downwards like a skirt or kilt. Anyway, roll on Spring, but some rain would be surely welcome. -E
Maybe it's time to start a new thread : bud-breaking is over now, most of our trees are in full leaves, some "red" ones are already turning to green... ;°)
Yikes, not at my place! We don't all live in the tropics. ;) Plenty of maples, even palmatums, still locked up tight. Personally I like to wait a bit after the bud breaks, otherwise they do sort of look the same. I looked at Shoryū-no-tsume today, you can't see the funky long leaves yet. And a lot of the sycamores are locked up tight.
Yep, I'm at the same stage as Emery, plenty still breaking bud! Will try and get some more pics tomorrow...
I just moved mine (hopefully last year in a pot) onto the gravel, not a single bud burst yet on it! That Cascade Ruby is pretty, but doesn't look very red. Does it fade very quickly? Here are some more from the last few days. You may notice many of the red dissectums look alike. :) Edit: correction, the name of the japonicum is Aka-me-ha-uchiwa. I noticed I had misspelled "Akame hauchiwa", and became troubled by this name, so researched it. Here is the note I have just added the the cultivar database: 赤芽羽団扇, Aka-me-ha-uchiwa, means "Feathered Round Fan with Red Buds." Ha-uchiwa is specifically defined as this type of feathered (non-folding) fan, and is specifically hyphenated in Kenkyusha 4th ed. So to not hyphenate it is not only uncompliant bu a grammatical error. (ED)
@emery My Filigree is in a super sheltered spot and shows some lovely cream highlights to the leaves. “That Cascade Ruby is pretty, but doesn't look very red. Does it fade very quickly?” I moved it out to a sunnier location yesterday so will colour up soon. It’s been in a temporary sheltered spot over winter so hasn’t has as much direct sun since bud break as it should get. Ive had this one 2 years and it’s a mid red/maroon colour with yellow, not ruby colour for me, thus far - lasts well and is growing strongly. Will see what it does this year in a sunnier spot. Great pics Emery - Tish caught my eye - seems like a red version of Kinshi…very attractive, not seen that one over here. Do you have Red Feathers? It’s available at a local nursery here..It has quite an interesting dissected leaf, like a dissectum throwback Aka-me-ha-uchiwa also - very pretty
Thanks! I'll post the few left from the set here. Cascade Ruby: I've only seen it otherwise in the marketing shots, looks red there! :) I do like Filigree a lot. Mine should be ready to plant this autumn. Looking forward to see how it does in the ground. I have Suisei as a backup, lol. Aka-me-ha-uchiwa is a great japonicum, very distinct. This is only the second year planted, so looking forward to it getting better established. "Tish" isn't a real cultivar, or not yet. It may deserve it, already nearly 10 years old, staying small with those super-thin leaves. My sister (Tish) picked it out as a small plant, and I've never been able to get it across the channel, even harder now! I may have to try and graft it, and put it in a commercial shipment, but the twigs are really tiny, so not sure how well it will graft. Usugumo is hard to get everywhere... with the restrictions, the UK is pretty much off the map for that one. I've corrected the division of what is usually (and previously by me, too) given as Kinu-gasa-yama, which makes no sense. Here again is my note if anyone is interested in the source of the name: Kinu gasa yama(Esveld), 衣笠山 Kinugasa-yama or Mount Kinugasa, an 870 m mountain in the Unzen range near Kyoto. It is known for a good walking trail and beautiful views.
Aoyagi x2, shira Aureum: Sigitatsu sawa, Aka shigitatsu sawa, Amagi shigure: Some doubles, Milligan with Tennyo-no-hoshi and Helena (light) with selection (dark) : Trompenburg, Manyo-no-sato: Selection and Beni tsukasa:
These are my grafts, they were all grafted July/August last year. I grafted just over 100 and 65 or so have survived and look very promising. In previous years I’ve only ever had 1 or 2 survive but I changed my method last year having watched loads of YouTube videos.
