Japanese maple question: I am about to plant a standard Acer palmatum Dissectum, pot grown until now. It will be next to separate planting areas for green Bamboo and French Lavender – the contrast looks …

Japanese maple question: I have an inherited collection of Japanese maples. They vary in age (7 – 20 years) and type and I have been told that they have all been re-potted (3 – 5 …

Growing a potted Japanese maple in a hot climate raises problems over and above that caused by the potential stress of a hot summer. As I mentioned in leaf scorch on a Japanese maple, raising …

Leaf scorch on a Japanese maple is caused by a number of factors, most of which are easily rectified. The signs usually start to appear in late spring or early summer as temperatures rise and, …

Suitable garden soils for a Japanese maple range from pure peat to chalk, limestone, heavy clay and everything in between. As I explain here, the alkalinity or otherwise of the soil is not the determining …

How not to prune a Japanese maple would be a more accurate title of the video above that I recently came across on Youtube. The biggest mistake is pruning in the summer, the second worst …

Treat trees (and Japanese maples) tenderly was the theme of an article by Dan Gill, gardening columnist of The Times-Picayune, that appeared on the nola.com (New Orleans, Louisiana) on-line magazine. The article was a response …

The words Japanese maple and Japanese beetle in the same sentence are usually a signal for panic but the damage Japanese beetles can potentially do to a Japanese maple has to be looked at in …