Shaina looking bright in the garden.

Gorgeous, Julia. Acer 'Fjellheim' is another coral bark maple - so lovely, and really providing four seasons of interest.

It's suppose to stay small. We shall see.

Julia, your Manyo-No-Sato and 'Fjellheim' are such sweet little trees. They're gonna be stunners!

I hope they live up to the descriptions.

Acer palmatum Sazanum, bought and planted this year:

Mika, just beautiful

Thank you, Mary. I went a little bonkers with acer purchases this year (29 new ones), but so far they have all settled in well and I'm looking forward to watching them grow.

Great colors on the maple! Will look forward to seeing your maples as they grow.

with Julia! Can't wait to see all the pics!

Thanks Julia, Mary.

As always, fall color from orangeola and seed Maple, even from my newest one, the little Coral Bark JM.

Pretty, Cheryl. Do you keep all your maples in pots? I've seen some potted JMs that have been trained as bonsai, but I've never tried it.

I'd be afraid to put a tree in a pot, but that's me - it would likely die of thirst. All my maples go directly into the ground, some are full sized trees, others much smaller. I'm not enamored of the weepers, but do have a couple and I could see them being OK in a container. I'm sure different regions have different needs, I'm lucky to be in an area that maples thrive in. Plant them and forget them.

I love my JM's but, with limited space, most are in pots (on drip with a timer ).

I watched an old episode of "In the Garden with Bryce Lane" on PBS the other night. They featured a nursery in North Carolina called Mr. Maple. Have any of you ever been there or purchased trees online from them? Their plants are beautiful!

Now I'm looking around my postage stamp yard and dreaming about exotic JM's.

cliftoncat said:Pretty, Cheryl. Do you keep all your maples in pots? I've seen some potted JMs that have been trained as bonsai, but I've never tried it.

All 5 of my JMs are in pots. I live in a forested area and some of that forest is in our backyard. Over the past 25 years the trees have grown so that they take most of the moisture out of the soil. Believe it or not, the post stay more moist than the actual ground. I have problems keeping my impatiens moist in the ground. The trees want all the water I can give it and then some. I have amended the soil and dug deep so that annuals have their own, but it looks like I will have to bury pots into the ground if I want to keep the look I want.

Also live in an area with very hot summers. The pots allow me to move the pots out of the heat into shade, or into the spring sunlight as it changes in the yard. There are only a few JMs that will grow in our hot area. I aim to get at least 1 of each.

This is a terrible photo of my oldest JM. It is a NOID,, green leaves, that doesn't change color much and is not very pretty in the fall. I have had it in a pot of that size for over 20 years. I had to repot it this year simply because the original fiberglass pot disintegrated! I trimmed the roots when I gave it a new pot and some fresh soil. But it is not bonsai'd. Only root-trimmed just not drastically.

The tree nextdoor. Looks like it got nipped during our little cold spell.

It will likely recover. I've had some pretty sad looking end-of-season Jap. maples that the following spring have flourished. I always leave one I fear is dead standing until at least the following summer to see if it will put out new growth. Sometimes it is only one surviving branch, but after a couple years it will fill in again.

Everyone's fall photos are absolutely breathtaking. Thank you so much for sharing them

New leaf growth on several of our JMs!



I've noticed other people also posting new JM pics to the DB.