Japanese maples have captured the hearts of gardeners everywhere – or so it appears. Even those just starting will frequently place a maple right at the top of their wishlist. The enduring appeal of ...

More and more gardeners are creating colourful landscapes using foliage rather than flowers. Japanese maple trees are especially useful in this context for providing beautiful colour as well as great ...

My variegated cream and green-leafed Japanese maple is just beginning to leaf out. To be honest, I thought I'd killed it. I bought it last year on impulse and left it in its plastic wrapper down the ...

Everyone loves a Japanese maple, or at least that’s the way it seems. Even novice gardeners will often have a maple at the top of their must-have list. There’s more than one reason for the continuing ...

Japanese maples can boost the autumnal palette of your garden, with burnt orange, zingy yellow, scarlet red and deep burgundy colours. These spectacular deciduous trees, also known as acers – some of ...

Green-thumbed shoppers can currently save a massive £40 on this four-piece collection of Japanese Maples, which are set to add a vibrant display of colour, whether planted in gardens, as part of a ...

Q: What Japanese red maples do you recommend for their hardiness in our climate, given its extremes of cold, heat, humidity, and dryness? I live in State College, which is a bit colder than the ...

I love maple trees but do not have room for large trees on my small lot. I see a lot of Japanese maples. Are they good choices for our area? Other than flowering small trees, Japanese maples are the ...

WHEN IT COMES to autumn color, it’s all about maples. From our native big leaf (Acer macrophyllum) with its dinner-plate-size leaves, to delicate, feathery Japanese maples, you can count on fall ...

A Japanese maple entered my life 15 years ago. At $20 it was the most expensive plant I'd ever bought. That small tree, Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Atropureum,' would now cost about $3,000. Every time ...

We've covered trees quite a bit in this column lately - and there's a reason. There's no other landscape element that can significantly increase property value like trees. Shrubs can't do that, and ...