Pruning a Japanese Laceleaf Maple
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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Laceleaf Japanese Maple Problem
Comments (2)What is your soil condition? What kind of humidity do you have? How cool does it stay or how hot does it get? If it gets hot do you spray around to cool the yard? Think of it like this: Where do you find maples? I am in California and if I want to find a maple I will have to go inland and look along stream banks and in shaded canyons. That means two things to me: they like water and they like shade or maybe coolness that shade affords them. So if the ground they are in gets hot they may become very unhappy!!! As a deciduous tree the accumulated leaf litter does have a cooling effect on the surface of the soil! So maybe the tree is trying to keep itself cool and is unable to do so. So check out the soil. Get a bunch of potted ferns or something you like and stick under that tree and water them every day. Spray the air or mist down the tree. I cannot say that the above will work. It is easy to write these words but even an image is not enough to provide a solid answer as you need to feel the leaves, touch the earth at mid day, develop a sense of that image you saw that caused you to want to plant one of these fantastic trees and understand it from that basis....See MoreTrimming Emerald Lace Japanese Maple
Comments (4)I have 4 japanese maples in my smaller sloped downward front yard. Two are dwarf ever reds which look great and I'm satified with my trimming efforts. My problem is the two split leaf regular sized green japanese maples. I purchased my house about 2 years ago and someone had "trimmed" these into a boxwood type shape. So I've been letting them just go nuts to get a little more of a natural shape back to them. I'm to the point now (or in late fall I should say) that I want to trim them back. Can anyone provide a good picture of how these should look when trimmed correctly? I've looked through several of my japanese gardening books, but I haven't found a good example to go by. And of the two larger maples, one has grown towards the sun as a typical wooded area is on its other side. This has caused it to grow toward the driveway, and over a little bit. A landscaper looked at it and thinks its too mature to train it another way now. Should you need photos of these two maples, let me know. I hope this helps ladybug too. Thanks!...See MoreGreen Laceleaf Japanese Maple
Comments (4)It looks pretty appropriate for the season to me. Yes, it loses its leaves - if in sufficient sun, these can turn some pretty dramatic shades of gold and orange before they fall but if in a lot of shade, the colors are much less intense. The brown, dry leaves may be an indication that it is not getting enough water. That does not appear to be a very big container for that large a tree so frequent watering may be called for. You may also want to consider potting up to a larger container size this winter when the tree is dormant. Southern California also has somewhat alkaline water sources, which are not favored by JM's. Water pH should be somwhere between 5.5 and 6.5. You might want to acidify your irrigation water slightly by adding some household vinegar to the watering can. 1 cup of vinegar per gallon of water....See MoreTransplanting a japanese laceleaf maple
Comments (9)I'd try getting as much root as possible, rather than trying to get a perfect rootball. 1. Start new hole (final size determined by how big plant turns out to be). Wide and shallow. Dirt on tarp. 2. Start digging next to tree. When general perimeter to be used is found, dig trench. Again, focus on root retention rather than undisturbed soil ball: due to limitations on size and weight that can be handled successfully, most soil balls on purchased plants are too small, barely have more intact fine roots than barerooted stock from a warehouse. 3. Undercut, drag onto conveyance (tarp, cart...), replant asap. Mulch and water well. You should have forks for exposing roots, spades for cutting them and shovels for moving soil. I would try to split the difference between intact soil ball and complete barerooting, forking dirt off the outside to retain long roots but leaving core undisturbed. For one thing, there may be an original clay ball left from when the tree was in a nursery field. Get this job done promptly, some deciduous trees and shrubs are swelling already. Original edition of TREES AND SHRUBS FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST GARDENS said Feb. 15 was the winter transplanting cutoff around here. Lately the growing season has been 2 weeks longer than in the past, due to global warming. So, if you add a week to this end of the growing season the dormant transplanting season would be over next Wednesday! Plants are sure acting like it. (Varies with situation, of course, some plants bud out much later than others, some sites much colder and wetter than others)....See MoreSeniorBalloon
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