Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Acers in the spring
Spring is definitely the time to be viewing Japanese maples where I live. They've all leafed out, and they have yet to take on the crispy brown extremities of the hotter, drier summers.
These last two are supposedly super-dwarf types with very small leaves. So far they seem content to grow with good form in their 2 gallon pots in my front courtyard.
Japanese maples are pretty much all propagated by grafting onto random Acer palmatum rootstock. It's the only way to get the named varieties to come true.
