Japanese Maples from Monrovia
For anyone passionate about gardening, it's always so rewarding to plant new specimens and watch them flourish.
This week, I received a delivery of Japanese maples from Monrovia, a wholesale plant nursery specializing in shrubs, perennials, annuals, ferns, grasses, and conifers with several nursery locations across the country. They're widely known for their Japanese maples and grow more than 30 varieties of Acers. These plants will be added to existing gardens around my farm. Among them - Ryusen Weeping Japanese maples, Waterfall Japanese maples, Coral Bark Japanese maples, Shaina Japanese maples, Autumn Moon Fullmoon Japanese maples, and more.
Here are some photos, enjoy.
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- Monrovia grows such beautiful specimens. These Japanese maples are in such excellent condition.
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- Once plants arrive at my farm, they are immediately placed in organized rows according to type so they are easy to see, count, water, feed, and access when it is time to plant.
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- This is a Ryusen Weeping Japanese maple, Acer palmatum ‘Ryusen.’ It is known for its cascading branches and vibrant seasonal foliage.
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- The leaves are generally green and palmate with five lobes each.
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- Coral Bark Japanese maple, Acer palmatum ‘Sango Kaku,’ is a beautiful small deciduous tree that thrives in bright dappled shade in warmer areas or in full sun in cooler regions.
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- During spring and summer, its foliage is a light yellow to almost neon green in color that turns a striking yellow or salmon-red hue in autumn.
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- Autumn Moon Fullmoon Japanese Maple, Acer shirasawanum ‘Autumn Moon,’ is admired for its vibrant fall foliage and interesting leaf shape.
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- The leaves are fan-shaped and emerge in spring with a bright yellow to burnt orange color. As the season progresses, the leaves display a range of shades ,including peach and apricot, especially when grown in full sun.
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- This is the foliage of a Shishigashira Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’ – a compact, slow-growing tree that typically reaches seven to 15 feet tall. It features heavily curled and crimped green leaves that turn to brilliant yellow with fiery orange and red highlights in autumn.
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- The Red Dragon Japanese maple, Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Red Dragon,’ has an attractive lacy appearance and as fall temperatures cool, the foliage changes to a bright, apple red color.
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- The leaves are deeply cut, feathery, and fern-like. My other Red Dragon Japanese maples do so wonderfully here at the farm and add such great color to the gardens – this one will too.
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- The Waterfall Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Waterfall,’ is loved for its cascading green foliage, and elegant weeping form.
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- It is known for its finely dissected leaves that emerge almost fluorescent green in spring, then mature to a dark green in summer, and bright golden-yellow in fall.
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- ‘Shaina,’ or Acer palmatum ‘Shaina,’ is a handsome dwarf Japanese maple with a compact form. The freely branching growth becomes dense with maturity, and its foliage emerges bright red, then a deep maroon.
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- Twombley’s Red Sentinel Japanese Maple, known botanically as Acer palmatum ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinel’ is columnar and narrow in form and shows off a rich green to burgundy foliage.
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- It is known for its striking red leaves that emerge in spring, darkening to burgundy in summer, and turning brilliant scarlet in the fall.
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- In contrast, this is the lacy foliage of a Ribbon-Leaf Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Atrolineare.’ It is a small tree with elegant, fine-textured, palmate leaves. The finger-like foliage emerges red in spring, is bronze-red and green in summer, then turns brilliant red and orange in fall.
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- Monrovia also sent me this silver-blue evergreen, The Blues Blue Spruce, Picea pungens ‘The Blues’. It has weeping branches and an irregularly spreading and drooping top.
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- The Blues Blue Spruce is known for its bright silver-blue foliage and large, bright blue needles. It will do nicely in my pinetum.
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- Here’s my head gardener, Ryan McCallister, checking each and every specimen as it is unloaded. I can’t wait to place these Japanese maples in their new permanent garden locations. Stay tuned to find out where they go.
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