Given your location, it seems the maple should do quite well but the plumeria will need to be brought in for winter :-) There is often a lot of misinformation about the correct naming of Japanese maples. All named forms - cultivars - of Japanese maples are propagated asexually, either by grafting (most common) or by cuttings (less common). All seed grown Japanese maples are just referred to as generic Acer palmatum - no cultivar name - regardless of what the parent plant was. Cultivar names are registered and all reputable growers will propagate correctly with the approved and correctly labeled stock plants. But there are many less reputable sources that will produce maples under other, non-registered names or even by seed. 'Bloodgood is perhaps the most widely propagated Japanese maple on the market and you will often find seed-grown so-called Bloodgoods on the market. They may very well look like Bloodgood but they are not. You may find "dwarf" Bloodgoods included in this somewhat suspicious grouping. Bloodgood is a pretty good sized JM. The typical mature size is often quoted as 20'x20' but Vertrees (THE JM authority) reports a mature height of upto 30 feet. As I stated previously, there is NO dwarf Bloodgood but a good number of smaller growing Bloodgood look-alikes, several of which were sports or brooms from a known Bloodgood. But they are known by different names if properly registered cultivars. Enjoy whatever tree you actually have :-)) I've yet to meet any Japanese maple I didn't like!

I know nothing about birds i have had a small wooden bird house on my porch for 20 years i have had small sparrows or wrens living there and mating there for years This year i bought a hanging house like feeder which is hung about 4 feet away i never knew that people hate house sparrows i enjoy watching thrm sitting on top of the bird house once or twice i saw them at the feeder not much action I filled the feeder with classic wild bird food i hope i see more birds in the Spring any advice for me about seeds or sparrows i have never had a problem i just wanted to feed thrm thanks for your advice

weedmeister, Exactly! :-) It was such a peaceful, serene print, and tied in beautifully w/ the look I'm going for. I just know someone on here is going to come up w/ it cuz everyone here is so helpful. Thanks, LL, it really is pretty; hopefully I'll find it again and you'll be able to see for yourself. When I saw the post, it was late at night, and I was really needing to get finished up on the computer and get to bed, so I just thought I'd check it out more in depth the next day. No such luck :-(

Oh Hobby....You should of see two winters ago!! I took sick for a week where my HUGE three feet tall Gardenia resided in a huge window which was amazing..Well, it so happens that that summer I broke my heel falling off a ladder doing roofing and I could not spray my plants like I would of with the F.E... I had no friends willing to offer besides no longer my friends.. Well, during the time of just that one week I was sick, I came back to work to be greeted with a huge gardenia that looked like it was sprayed with Halloween cob web which look like fog from a distance...Little did I expect to see those dam critter, mites having a huge party crawling over the place! Do you know that I had no choice but to lift that thing over my head to the dumpster in which all those mites just fell all over me! It was disgusting..I had to strip naked when I got home outside in 30 degree weather and take a shower just to make sure I did not carry just one of those things into my house..I'm sure that one would of devastated my collection..I always had a fear of mites. always...That is why I am so careful to avoid them! I hate them..I watch all my plants all winter long looking for just one..I can usually tell when I have them, I am that good and know them that well..I can tell the damage a mile away....My 'Rosemary' Oil will always be in hand if I ever have any again.....They will never get a hold of my trees, ever... That is also the reason whey I stick them on my cold porch..No pest survives or forages in temps that cool, especially after spraying the leaves with mist, cool and a fan going...Not one bug ever..I would rather sacrifice extensive growth than deal with bugs..I almost threw away every plant I owned because It too much work to keep up..The spraying inside can be such a pain...My gardenia plants, spider mite magnets get sprayed every week no matter what, because they are kept warm inside or in my greenhouse..Don't need then attracting any for sure) Wow, you opened a can of worms with me, or should I say MITES..lol