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Howdy y’all and welcome to the Mr Maple show I’m Tim Kenichi y’all I’m back this is Matt today we’re going to be walking you around the RO to dend and species Botanical Garden y’all this is our third trip to the Botanical Garden it’s right beside the bones Eye collection so if
You ever get out checking out the bones Eye collection take a minute and check out these cool old specimen Japanese maples and really cool Ro to dendrons right here in the state of Washington now it wasn’t exactly Rota dender in peak season when we were here there’s
Some awesome Maples in this Garden this Botanical Garden does boast the largest collection of species red dendrons in the world so they have some outstanding red dendrons but we can come back during rododendron season and show you some of those blooms right now we were a little
Early on fall color but there’s some great Maples in this Garden lot of cool stuff now this is a 22 acre botanical garden featuring a lot of species and hybrids of of uh red dendrons from Asia Europe and North America there’s also a ton of cool Japanese maples I’ve always
Been in love with a lot of these Japanese maples my first trip I came out here with Frank bil from a maple Society trip and we’re on a maple Society trip here today when we’re filming this video as well uh Frank biles took us from SE
Or from a tiggered Oregon up to Olympia Washington we stopped here and got to go around and check out all these cool plants this is a really large Acer pomum reticulatum here also known as shatu Sawa that’s an ancient it’s like one of the first ghostlike Japanese maples that’s recorded in Japanese literature
What a big species there too I mean that that is a specimen to hold right there it’s huge and there’s a big shishi gashira right beside of it one of the bigger shishi ghiras I’ve ever seen a lot of these trees were donated by Mrs Olsen uh from Mr Olsen who introduced
Olsson’s frosted strawberry uh she had a lot to do with a lot of the ferns and Rod dendrons in this garden and she donated a lot of their Japanese maple collection to this Garden ah very cool lineage there on many of these older trees I mean you’re looking at specimens
Here that are well over 40 years old some of them over 50 years old and just an amazing landscape they have a lot of walking gardens now like Tim said this is right beside the Pacific Rim Bonsai collection we have a video on that too so definitely go check it out it steals
A lot of the attention away from Ro to din Gardens for a lot of people there’s some amazing classic bonai in that collection as well but we wanted to show you around some of these Gardens cuz there’s really beautiful landscape and just a lot going on if you have time
There’s actually 22 Acres of this Garden here in Federal Way Washington it was built in 1974 and there’s just so many cool things that will grab your attention I mean as you’re walking around this you’ll see Maple after Maple and raded entrance and they make such great companion plants aelas roted indons and
Japanese maples I mean such great companion plants there’s some really old Palms in here uh you know being that this was built in 1974 I’m betting many of these plants were you know good siiz trees when they came here and planted them this tree we’re looking at right
Here really caught my eye the very first time we went visited it it’s labeled as an Acer sanum but the foliage doesn’t look Subban at all the leaf morphology is completely different than Acer subam and so it grabbed my attention because it looks like a possible hybrid Yeah Tim
Actually brought up an interesting point he said this reminds him a lot of a japonicum shukan and I don’t know the origin of that plant but it certainly does remind me of that a lot now I could also be talked into believe in it looks like some of the other hybrids uh you
Know who knows a real classification on this one but it certainly doesn’t seem like exactly as it’s labeled and it looks really interesting and a lot of these old species that were collected we don’t really know always the origin sometimes these may be of garden origin
And if they’re of garden origin we know sanum does hybridize with palum so thatum and japonicum so that maybe what we’re seeing here is actually a hybrid if it wasn’t collected from the wild so many cool plants through here this Garden’s full of hostas aelas Rod
Dendrons I mean it looks pretty cool in Four Seasons you can visit this place spring summer fall and winner and I think there’s a lot of interest for each season I’ve always loved this varus that’s right here I mean the very first time we went and visited this this was
In Peak fall color I think it was neon orange yeah neon orange and uh this is just such an amazing tree this is one of the ones that was given by Mrs Olen according to uh Frank bils by Frank bils and uh you know it’s really filled out
That space really nicely but I mean we’ve been visiting this ARB breum now for over about 12 years now 13 years yeah I think the first time we went was in 09 so 09 to 2023 that’s 14 years and I just love how the Moss is just growing
On the base of this tree it twists and curls uh such a cool tree there’s so much going on the rodendan are everywhere it’s kind of a forest of rodendan species I mean it’s easy to see they have the most rodendan selections of anywhere in the world because there
Every corner you turned down there’s a rododendron and they they really accent that with a lot of other interesting plants and in this Garden many of the maples are kind of used as accents to the rhodendron they have that fall color and that spring color element
And a lot of vertical interest to this Garden that would otherwise be you know a lot shorter right here we’re coming up on a lunar Lum selection and a lot of these lard Lums they’re actually growing right now in deep shade so they’re not showing the colors that they naturally
Would if they’re growing out in more sunlight uh this one here in particular actually would have a lot more color to it it is Villa Toronto uh that’s from Villa Toronto Gardens introduced by Corvin geldin he was actually doing a talk walked around some Gardens at Villa Toronto Gardens and found Villa Toronto
And red pygmy in the same Gardens and introduced them to the nursery trade yeah this this Garden boasts dogwoods uh so many cool plants there’s a lot going on just besides Maples and Ro to denans there’s a ton of different species there’s staria pseudo Chamas they kind of list on their website you
Can go check out when each thing’s kind of at their Peak you can look at all four seasons and what’s kind of Ideal to see in each season when you’re visiting and the the website is just Ro RH o d y garden.org so you can go there and check
That out I like how they break it down but kind of what’s going on each season so you kind of can make sure to focus on the plants that are going to be best during your trip speaking of red pygmy there’s a big red pygmy there as well uh
They were two seedlings from that one Garden in Italy and as you can see here both of these aren’t showing quite the color they would be but they their green of stage because they’re right before fall color and they are being grown in the shade um a lot of this Garden is
Very shade loving plants a lot of roded indrans with that high canopy yeah I love this place it’s a nice walking trail it’s really well laid out it’s easy to get through it’s not a big hike I mean the place is 22 Acres so
You can make it as big of a hike as you want around this place but I mean most of the gardens you get to they’re very accessible and it’s not hard to navigate your way through here I like the textures the ferns give in this Garden I never thought about using ferns as
Undestroys for Japanese maples but they really do give a nice soft texture with your Japanese maples being more of the focal point in the garden yeah it feels like a forest here but it’s a forest of all cool plants so it’s like a Pacific Northwest forest of Woody ornamentals
It’s not natives there’s a few natives shading the place out but there’s a lot of really cool other plants mixed in here I like just going to check on a lot of these specimens because they’re so old they’ve stretched out but they’ve got such interesting shapes and and no
Two trees are alike when it comes to Japanese maples and it’s just awesome to see these old specimens and how they twist and curve now one thing they do have here year round is a nursery that you can purchase some of the roted endrum from the garden those are located in the
Central location as you come in from the Pacific Rim Bonsai collection saw a lot of cool roaded dendrons was tempted to pick a few up didn’t get any on this trip but there’s a lot of neat stuff in there I think the biggest problem for us
On this trip is we knew we’d be going into Canada yeah and so we couldn’t have any plants with us since we’d be crossing the border and you can’t cross the border from Canada or from the United States to Canada with plants and then if you somehow did pull that off
You’d have to come back into the United States with plants again which is highly illegal unless you’ve really got your paperwork together so no plans for us yet on this trip but lots of cool stuff um the rad of dendrons just keep going on for forever as you can imagine with
The largest collection the roaded end’s never end this would be a really fun Garden to tour in June and just kind of focus on a lot of the different flowers that are going on uh that really they have something for every single season though yeah this is one of the things
About this place is every corner you turn you see something different that you didn’t see around the other the other spot and it’s just so cool all the rare plants they have in this Garden I mean their focus is on roaded endrance right they don’t call this the Japanese
Maple Garden but everywhere I turned I saw another Japanese Maple and you just start seeing other cool plants everywhere as you start looking around it it’s such a delight I didn’t get time to go around the full 22 Acres but I’d really like to go back and spend more
Time there at these Gardens oh this is about the time of the day where the bus driver told me to go find Tim because he was still running around with his camera video in this and the bus was ready to go so they said go find your brother
We’re leaving pretty soon I’m pretty sure if you heard the audio in this it was hey Tim hey Tim hurry up dude the bus is leaving right and here I am I’m coming up here and I see Japanese maples in this Courtyard over here around these benches grown in containers and I’m like
Man I’m not leaving yet I’m going to take some more footage of more Japanese maples yeah as you get in here to the kind of this area there’s a lot more trees starting to get into a little bit of fall color um start to see some Reds
And oranges and yellows and a lot of those things peeking through this area had some older large Japanese maples as well that really just showed out and some younger ones in containers that were relatively new and it I wondered how old some of these trees were though
I mean some of these trees that were in here clearly been in here quite a while you wonder how much bigger these Japanese maples would have been if they put it in the ground right uh but I often look at Japanese maples in containers which many of youall grow
Them in containers but I think man you know it’s so much easier just put that tree in the ground let this tree grow out to be a big gorgeous tree if you’ve got the room some great lace leaves here and containers some of those fall uh colors will start a little bit earlier
In the pot that root temperature is getting a little lower so a little bit of the color was already starting on many of the trees in the containers nice Greenhouse with some Tropicals going on back here but just so much going on outside there’s some great Jab these
Maples all around and some beautiful specimens in the ground over here on this side you can see that there’s some hosta sticking on the side they’ve got just a a a very unique conglomeration of plants and they use them really wisely I mean as you can see here in this Courtyard the Japanese
Maples just extend the garden where there is actually no ground and you see the they use accent plants very well to grow with the Japanese maples and all the other plants it’s planted very well because there’s not a lot of space for weeds to grow I mean everywhere has a
Unique plant that’s growing there and has been planted there with a purpose yeah if you’re fill in all the spaces it’s easy to Garden right you don’t have to pull as many weeds if you’re fill in all the spaces with other plants that’s the other side I believe
Of that big reticul AUM that shikat suawa uh it’s just just an amazing specimen one of the best specimens of shat Susa I think I’ve ever seen I think it’s nice right now but could you imagine that in early spring I bet you that’s incredible and here’s that sales area where they
Have so many different red indons and species rendin I’m a big fan of the ausum manum um that’s probably my favorite of the roded endrance uh so I mean there’s so many cool things when you start going here and checking out all these different Ries and they’ve got
Photos and descriptions uh it it’s basically a Gardener’s Delight yeah really fun going around here fun way to spend your day if you’re in that area um this is this is just really a great classic Arboretum that’s got a ton of older plants so take care y’all God bless and have a good
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If you mean Sue Olsen, her garden ferns book is a tremendous reference.
Cool gardens! Thanks!