There Is A Japanese Maple For Your Garden
There are many Japanese Maples but I am writing and showing you in photos mainly the cultivars of Acer palmatum and Acer japonicum. These cultivars have been selected and propagated for more than 300 years and for 200 years the Japanese maple has ... [... more]
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The Art of Japanese Gardens : Designing & Making Your ...
 Often gardeners become so enslaved to the work of maintenance and transformation that they neglect the meditative potential of their green space. Worrying over the details, the whole picture is sometimes lost. This is an attitude Herb Gustafson hopes to ... [... more]
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The Garden Lover's Guide to Britain
There are thousands of British gardens open to the public. Of these, Patrick Taylor has chosen the most distinctive 100, selected for beauty, pleasure, and British horticultural tradition. The great traditional gardens of Hidcote and Stourhead are ... [... more]
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The Art of Japanese Gardens: Designing & Making Your Own ...
Often gardeners become so enslaved to the work of maintenance and transformation that they neglect the meditative potential of their green space. Worrying over the details, the whole picture is sometimes lost. This is an attitude Herb Gustafson hopes to ... [... more]
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Timber Press Pocket Guide to Japanese Maples
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Bonsai with Japanese Maples
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Japanese Maples: Momiji and Kaede
Expecting More ... Disappointing After looking at the pictures of the book on-line, it appeared to be a publication which was both beautifully photographed and written at an expert level - which would be helpful to the home gardener. Not so. Most of the ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 13
Behind the azalea, between the Japanese maple (Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood') and the dogwood is my colony of Ostrich Ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris pensylvanica). I use the term 'colony' rather loosely. At any one time, there are probably four or ... [... more]
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Step By Step - Putting It Together
Our gardening muscles are not yet limbered up. So we need to do something satisfying but not too strenuous. Warm-up gardening. For me this means pruning the Japanese maples. Getting rid of the tiny dead twigs, cleaning up crossed branches, ... [... more]
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Foliage All Around Me: And Not A Drop Of Green
Since I've been gardening for myself, I've amassed quite a collection of colored foliage plants: golden hostas and hakonochloa, purple heucheras and perilla, basil and fountain grass; blue lyme grass and rue, a Japanese maple and a willow that ... [... more]
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Oriental Beauties
Winter or summer, fall or spring, the Japanese maple offers up her beauty in an array of fascinating shapes, colors and textures. And lest you think trees need long, rolling lawns to grow in, many of the more than 250 cultivars of Acer palmatum ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 10
One of the first woody plants I put in, at the outer fringes of this bed, was the Japanese cutleaf maple, Acer palmatum dissectum 'Inaba Shidare'. The cutleaf Japanese maples are among the most beautiful and graceful of the plant kingdom - and, ... [... more]
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