Japanese Acers

Thank you Scottish. I have had an Acer 'Red Wine' in a pot for ...oooh, probably five years now and it was definitely worth the patience. It is now getting really big and it's beautiful. I shall plant it in the ground when I get my next garden, and let it grow, grow, grow! I love it!

They do prefer the ground, don't they. All mine are now in the ground and I'll just have to sacrifice when they get a bit too big. In the ground they are less effort too!
I hope yours likes its new home.

I like buying them small, enjoying ten years or so of them till they get too big then ditch them and start again!:)

Definitely tricky in pots when grown from seed they don't have the advantage of a grafted one that is already on a mature root system.

It's good to know when we can have a bargain :o) I had my Acer for £1 in Woolworths many years ago. They're lovely trees.

Oh how do you bring yourself to ditch something you've had for years and is still beautiful? I can't even throw things out that are a bit of a thug! Which probably explains quite a lot about the state of our garden.

I know Steragram! Louisa! You have horrified me ;) so out of character!....and after I rescued that sickly conifer too! Lol!

Acer palmatum.
The very first tree I ever planted.
It had it's 20th birthday on May 5th, this year.
I went back, had a wee chat, then toasted it in the pub, later that evening.
Well, I couldn't very well invite it along, besides, I explained this to it, before we parted.
No, it wasn't a Japonica, but we still said sayonara.
I'm not heartless, y'know. ;-)