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Weeping Katsura

15 years ago

I love this tree but not sure if I can grow one here. Anyone know different?

Also, I'm really thinking I may try growing a Japanese Maple. I love them so!! I know our summers are Ã¼ber hot but....but.... Someone want to talk me down?

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an_ill-mannered_ache
15 years ago
i have a friend who grows dwarf weeping japanese maples in pots, in fairly deep shade. she waters them frequently. they seem to do ok. she gets them from a nursery in atlanta.

or, you could just grow hibiscus acetosella. it looks just like a japanese maple, only better, since it bears really very subtle but beautiful wine-colored flowers. i have several i could give you -- they have some motility, but in a good way. only drawback, like most hibiscuses, they have crappy root systems that tend to blow over in heavy wind and rain.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/63750/
vaodiva
Original Author
15 years ago
I actually have a few hibiscus. Picked them up at a nursery last year after stopping for the Japanese maples...he he. I've managed to root them from any part of the plant, and you are quite correct, they suck at standing up! I have them surrounded by sturdier bushes.

Your friend has maples in deep shade, huh. And they grow well? I'm looking at the lace leaf varieties. I've done the research, and everything but the heat fits where I want to put it. Do you know the name of the nursery in GA?

Thanks for the suggestion!
V:)
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That's encouraging to hear all, thank you. The only weeping trees I ever see in real life are those graft/prune umbrella types, so I really have no idea how this actually grows. I'm ready to be patient. I'm wondering if I will see any branching this year though, I'd just like to see how a new branch emerges and where it does so from. But glad to hear it seems about normal and I just need to wait. Yes Gardengal48! I've googled them many times - my favorite tree and I'm so jealous seeing filled out ones like that picture with that mounding natural habit. Mine has the setting sun behind it and even in it's tiny existing state, the little round slightly translucent leaves fluttering with the setting sun behind it is beauiful. It has room for 25-30' wide and taller where it is - that's just an initial planting arrangement to get it started and make watering easier. Someone (not me!) drove over that Rhody with a truck last fall, so I'm just playing with what's left of it. It's a roseum elegans, so will be big some day, but I'm going to see if I can prune it to spread wide (away from the tree) and stay low. If it wants to keep growing below the katsura in time I think that could look pretty. I may change my mind and move it next year (the rhody, not the katsura).
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an_ill-mannered_ache
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nah -- she has a sister there. every year, she goes there and brings back a trunk-full of rocks, maples, and peaches. hah hah -- funny thing is, that's more or less exactly what i'd bring back, too! florida's a funny place -- we drive to georgia for rocks.

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