My Seven Japanese Maples in My Japanese Inspired Garden #japanesegarden #japanesemaple #acerpalmatum

A short tour of my seven Japanese Maples (Acer palmatum) in my Japanese inspired garden. I’m growing each of them in various sized containers so that I can have many different ones in my garden with different colors, leaf shapes, textures, and either upright or weeping growth patterns. I am also growing them in containers because I have heavy clay based soil. Some of them are ones I bought five or six years ago, while others are newer acquisitions.

in order of appearance these are my Japanese maples (Acer palmatum):
1. Tobiosho;
2. Hogyoku;
3. Orangeola;
4. Waterfall;
5. Hubb’s Red Willow;
6. Ryu Sei; and
7. Ilarian.

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I’m here in my Japanese inspired garden and I’m looking at my Japanese maples. I’m growing all of them in containers. This one is Tobiosho. It has a beautiful little red stem. This one is Hyoku. The leaves are quite a bit bigger than the other one. This is my other larger one that I have in a container. This is orange yellow and it’s a weeping one that goes down towards the ground. This one is also a weeping one. It’s called waterfall. Then I have ones in smaller ones here. This is hubs red willow. This is Ryu. And this amazing variegated one is called Arian. It has all sorts of different colors mixed in. It’s really neat. Anyways, I have some of them growing in large wood planters. And then I have this waterfall one growing in a sort of midsize pottery one, a ceramic one. And then I have these three here growing in smaller ones. Eventually, I’ll probably have to move them up in size a bit, but these are relatively new acquisitions for me. So, I have seven growing in the garden all in this one area. They face south. I’m growing them in containers for two reasons. One is that I don’t want them to get too big and take over the whole garden because I don’t have tons of room. The other reason is because I have very heavy claybased soil and I’m afraid that they will perish from that. So, I could amend the soil and try to grow them in the ground, but it’s more fun for me to be able to try different kinds. Having the different colors and textures is great to add to the interest in this garden of mine. So, I’m happy growing them in pots and we’ll see how they do over the years. I gave a big trimming to my larger ones last year and they seem to be doing really well now. So, we’ll see.