One plant that simply must be present in every yard is a laceleaf Japanese maple. You know the ones: the beautiful, manageable-sized trees that have interesting leaves in stunning colors all ...

You won’t stop at just one, once you discover what they can do for your garden: “People get obsessed.” By Margaret Roach Matthew and Timothy Nichols’s story could be a case study of what it means to ...

It's now March, a time of the year when you never know what kind of weather we'll have. One day it's below freezing with snow and then, a few days later, temperatures are in the 50s or 60s. But ...

From an aesthetic point of view, Japanese maples have a distinctive architectural beauty year-round but especially after their leaves fall. From a practical perspective, these maple trees are compact ...

Q : Do you know what kind of Japanese maple tree this is? It is 25 years old and dying due to improper planting, according to an arborist who inspected it. These are pictures of it 10 years ago (see ...

WEST SEATTLE GARDENER Bill Hibler loves maples, so much so that he has about 160 trees in his collection, and that’s not counting seedlings. “Most are in pots, but there are several fairly mature ...