ACER PALMATUM PINK PASSION

Hers is a Pink Passion bought for me last year that looks identical thus far to my 6 foot tall Acer palmatum Shirazz?!

A damn nice and very outlandish Japanese Maple nevertheless! I just hate the girly name! Why never something like the Shrimp Pink Maple?! Lol!

Picture then a short video ...

SHRIMP PINK JAPANESE MAPLE - ACER PALMATUM KAORI NISHIKI

This one was not completely out but I took a few shots and filmed it due to think deep pink leaves on first appearing.

This is part of the Butterfly group but you might be surprised to hear, if you have a Butterfly, that despite the Butterfly being attractive it is the least attractive of this group as all the others have various shades of pink of them along with the very light and dar green!

Video of my Acer palmatum Kaori Nishiki ...

JAPANESE MAPLE - ACER PALMATUM DISSECTUM SEIRYU

Now this one might be of interest for people to seek out! For two reasons and that is that it is a lighter green the the normal viridis dissectum and also it can take much more sunlight, rather curiously, than the other Maples and that includes the other Dissectums!

Oh and the fact it goes a really nice orange-red in the Autumn would not be sniffed at either!

Here are some shots and bear in mind that this Maple is in a position where it receives far more sunlight than any of the others and this is near the house and away from big trees in a south facing garden!!

I can see everyone that has every burnt a Japanese Maple to a crisp now scrabbling around the backs of the cushions on the sofa for that pen that went missing?! Lol!

My Acer palmatum Dissectum Seiryu ...

JAPANESE MAPLE - ACER SHIRASAWANUM JORDAN

Now then here is a right beauty! No its leaves are not white, or variegated, or light pink or shrimp pink and nor do they have red or orange tips to them! Nor is its bark red in colour or like that of paper!

However what this is is a fantastic shade of green with stunningly shaped leaves and a great shape overall! This one you will see in the video below has produced flowers this year!

A word of warning that this particular maple is a very big one! Once again it gets big if you let it! Also this was another one that was not only in a bad state but was in a very bad state indeed when I got it and I was not entirely convinced that it would last until spring! I have had this one three years now.

Right now I always get confused with this species and japonicum as they have the word Moon in their common names. I always think of this one as the Full Moon Maple due to its less dissected leaves and the japonicum as the Half Moon Maple. But I think it might be the other way around? Lol!

A video of my Acer shirasawanum Jordan ..

JAPANESE MAPLE LITTLE PRINCESS

Here is an oddball one, or it IS in my book. Not particularly hard to get but what makes this odd for me is that it is like a miniature Tsuma Gaki (Painted Fingernails) as this has red tips to its leaves to. However whereas this one can be light green it is normally a much darker emerald leaf with red tip.

It also does not weep like Tsuma Gaki and as well as the leaves being small it does not grow into an unmanegable size.

Though one should remember that Acers only grow into unmanageable size ... IF YOU LET THEM! LOL!

Video of my Acer palmatum Little Princess

JAPANESE MAPLE TSUMA GAKI (PAINTED FINGERNAILS)

Another one of my Acers and a particularly beautiful one and added to that very different from every other Maple, despite having similar leaves to the normal palmatums!

This one has weeping leaves to start with and a beaqutiful light Jade Green colour with red tip and Tsuma Gaki means painted fingernails!

My Acer palmatum Tsuma Gaki ...

Here is a video and I will acquire more pictures and another video over the next few days when it looks it's best!

JAPANESE MAPLE TREE ORANGE DREAM

I am going to concentrate a little more on Orchids and Japanese Maples this year, when time and finances permit of course!

Now I have taken some shots and done a few films of my first maples to be in leaf, this one is my Acer palmatum Orange Dream ...

My Acer palmatum Orange Dream video ..