Japanese Maple Varieties

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 Japanese Maple Inaba Shidare is one of my long time favorites.  It’s from the family of Lace Leaf Japanese Maples with a weeping habit and cascading branches.  Bright red colored leaves in the spring turn a dark crimson red in the summer.  Inaba Shidare holds it’s summer… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 Acer palmatum ‘Higasayama’ is an incredibly interesting Japanese maple for sure.  The new growth in the spring is spectacular for sure, and hard to describe.  The only photos that I have to share at this time are late summer/fall photos, but you can bet I’ll be out… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 Acer palmatum ‘Hefner’s Red’ is an upright Japanese maple similar to and, according to some, superior to Bloodgood.  It’s a compact grower, comes out in the spring with vibrant red leaves and turns to a very deep red as summer approaches.  Hefner’s Red does a great job of… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 Acer japonicum ‘Green Cascade’ is really an interesting Japanese maple.  Looks like an upright grower, but the branches are pendulous.  Comes out in the spring with vivid green color but as fall approaches it morphs into an array of yellow and red colors.  The leaves are cut… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 The first time I saw Goshiki Shidare I was in love!  I became so enthralled with this amazing Japanese maple that I now have three of them in my landscape.  Not my nursery, in my landscape!  Why?  Because even though all three of them are Goshiki Shidare,… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081 Copyright 2011 Acer japonicum ‘Aureum’, Golden Full Moon Japanese Maple is a different kind of a Japanese maple.  First of all, it has golden or yellow leaves that start out in the spring almost a fluorescent green that look like velvet as you walk by.  This is an upright… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081  Copyright 2011 Garnet is a variety of the Lace Leaf Weeping Japanese Maples that is special to me because the very first Japanese maple in my landscape was Garnet.  I got the tree from a local nursery that couldn’t sell it because the entire back half of the tree was… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081 Copyright 2011 I find ‘Filigree Lace’ to be an very interesting Japanese maple.  Although a member of the dissectum family, this particular maple appears to be unique to most dissectums.  It has a lime green color, deeply cut leaves, and even though it is a weeping variety, it does… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081 Copyright 2011 ‘Ever Red’ is in the dissectum family of Japanese maples, which means that not only is this a weeping tree, but it also has that almost magical cut leaf or lace leaf, as it’s often called.  There are a number of lace leaf varieties available, but Ever… Click here to read more…

Michael J. McGroarty Perry, Ohio 44081 Copyright 2011 Acer palmatum ‘Corallinum’ is in the family of upright growing Japanese maples.  This particular variety is known for it’s burst of color in early spring with new leaves that are very much a light pink in color.  By June or July the leaves turn green, but usually early… Click here to read more…