Fall picture this morning - Page 2

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@spot555 wrote:
I LOVE that maple tree! It's the perfect height & proportion, & COLOR- WOW.

Btw, what type of maple is it?

@spot555 I believe it is called a lace leaf maple. I cut mine back to give it more shape....but you can just let it grow naturally if you like

Lace Leaf Japanese Maple

Acer Palmatum dissectum

The Lace Leaf Japanese Maple grows 6 to 9 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide. It is a small round shrub that forms a mound with reddish purple flowers. It blooms in April. The Lace Leaf Japanese Maple is an excellent garden plant with golden autumn colors in the fall.

Growth Rate: Slow

Soil Type: Prefers well-drained soils in sun or partial shade.

Zones: 5 to 8

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@SeaMaiden, just gorgeous! No wonder we love Fall! LM

Full of it · ‎07-04-2016

Beautiful!

IMW · ‎06-15-2014

Exquisite, beautifully executed. Do you do it yourself?

pommom · ‎03-10-2010

@SeaMaiden

Beautiful, beautiful garden and the tree is breathtaking. Did you landscape it yourself? Good job!

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SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@pommom wrote:
@SeaMaiden

Beautiful, beautiful garden and the tree is breathtaking. Did you landscape it yourself? Good job!

@pommom Thank you so much for the nice compliment!. We have a lot of huge fir trees in our front yard... so I landscaped it with a Japanese theme... a riverbed of stones flowing through the trees with a bridge going over it, plants that like the acid soil that the fir trees create... and black bark. I added some Japanese style ( what my husband calls) "Yard junk". Japanese lanterns, a buddha( in picture) and other statues and birds baths and wind chimes. I love the sound of the chimes when a breeze blows.

I enjoy the beauty year round... spring time flowers summer flowers and then the fire and color of the yard in the fall. Winter is just winter... not much going on.... then by March life starts to stir again... beckoning that spring is coming.

Between the months of November and Febuary it is so hard for me to keep positive and want to be outside... it is just wet, dark, damp and cold.