Best Maple For Fall Color?
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Comments (5)Yes, it's always red for Fire Dragon. Shades of red may change year to year though depending on the weather. Sooner Plant Farm sells them but they are expensive if you're interested in them.... Seems that late fall heat wave after nice gradual cooling off weather messed up Fire Dragon's fall color. Mostly on the Orange side as a result and more shriveled up leaves earlier than usual....See MoreWhat Japanese Maples do you grow? Fall color?
Comments (17)PM2, problem with HD is that individual stores don't know what they'll receive untill truck will be there. Even when they got their shipment invoice will say something like 'Assorted japanese Maples' and someone has to go out and physically check what tags on a plants says. Which is not going to happen, as you may guess :-) In my neck of the woods the following cultivars are pretty much common parts of the mix: 'Inaba Shidare', 'Tamukeyama', 'Red Select', 'Viridis', 'Butterfly' and 'Sango Kaku'. However, when grower for whatever reason can't fullfill order's quantity with 'common' plants it will throw in something from his 'premium' stock...but to get them you should be lucky to be the one of the first who sees them...and know what you are looking at :-) That's is how I got my 'Koto Hime' and 'Oridono Nishiki' (which at first glance looks like a 'Butterfly' reverting to original green form)....See MoreFall colors of shantung maples
Comments (20)it was spectacular this year. but last year wasn't much. & most trees had good color here in mckinney this year, but not last. i think the rainy spring/summer ruined last year this firedragon is planted in about 2-3 feet of "builders dirt" with a lot of reddish sand in it, on top of soil loaded with limestone & caliche. so its color is probably due to the builders dirt...See MoreJap. Maple with orange fall color spr. and summ. green
Comments (3)Any of the green leafed dissectums will produce orange fall color.......as will 'Hogyoku', 'Katsura', 'Kamagata', 'Jeddeloh Orange', 'Orange Dream', 'Mikawa Yatsubusa', 'Lemon Chiffon', 'Orangeola', 'Red Pygmy', 'Spring Delight'. And Acer japonicum 'Emmett's Pumpkin'. And a lot more will produce fall color that includes a lot of orange coloration but not necessarily limited to just orange.....'Aconitifolium' is one of those....See Moremulchmama
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