I have a beautiful Japanese maple with a trunk that is split on the north side, perhaps due to winter freeze-thaw. The tree still appears healthy, but I am concerned about this and am wondering if there is anything I…
I have a well established(10+ years) green lacy Japanese maple that is 4 feet tall and 5 feet wide in my well protected backyard. It was planted in full shade and has begun getting a little more light in the…
My neighbour no longer wants her Japanese maple that’s about 4′ H x 4′ W with a trunk diameter of 1 1/2-2″. When and how can I successfully transplant it?…
I live in North York, and come to the Botanical Garden regularly. Have two, one in front of the house and one behind. The soil is regular, we don’t feed them anything, water the plants around them. Every year they…
After the long winter and wet spring that we have been getting, my huge Japanese maple has leaves coming up. However part of the trunk of the tree has develop white spots. There are also no leaves on certain branches…
I have a Bloodgood Japanese Maple in a south facing location that was planted 6 years ago. It has done so well and looked beautiful and full until this spring when many of the branches remained bare. I went to…
Hi – We have a 4 year old Bloodgood Japanese Maple that started suffering from some die-back last season. This spring, it did not fully leaf out and the leaves that did are mostly wilting and covered with a white…
I have 5 small, 12” Japanese maple saplings that have seeded themselves around my mature trees.
A few are growing along the ground, I would like to stake them, in order to get their growth more upright. And potentially, eventually…
Hello,
We moved into a house on St. Clair West last summer. There was a Japanese maple planted on the front lawn that only got growth on the peripheral branches – the centre branches were all dead. We cut the…
Good morning, we live in East York (St. Clair and O’connor area) and have a 7-8 year old Japanese Maple in our front yard, western exposure.
We want to prune it’s heigth and are wonder if now (April 7th, 2019)…
