Here’s the first of our acers to turn colour, A. palmatum var. dissectum ‘Chantilly Lace’. Before long, all of its leaves will be the same bright colour, but I think it is at its most appealing when the colours are mixed as they are now, and the leaves are very close to dropping off so they may never get to be a uniform colour. Also present are the overhanging leaves of Hamamelis mollis, yet to change colour, Heuchera ‘Caramel’, Hosta ‘Frances Williams’ beginning to turn, and the sympathetic leaf colour of Hydrangea
paniculata in the background. There is a residual flower of Geranium sanguineum ‘Max Frei’ to the Acer’s right, allegedly providing a colour clash, but its flowering is supposed to be over before the Acer gets going.
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I love all acers, but it’s generally to wet/windy/wild for them here, but I have one good one growing in a big pot, sheltered under a dissceted alder tree with lovely dappled shade. It’s about 5′ across now and grew from an unnamed seedling left over from a plant sale. Not as dissected as yours, but very dainty and pretty and goes well with my ‘bruised tones with orange’ colour combination in the pots on our gravelled ‘sitouterie’…………………
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@Jane, Yours sounds gorgeous. That ‘bruised tones with orange’ colour is I think the only orange that really works in the garden, and only at this time of year. Have you a photo? And one of your sitouterie, because it is a far better word than the awful ‘patio’
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Me mutha has a Sangoo-kac-koo (my spelling dnelfiteiy one of the funner plants to pronounce, badly) that’s been growing well in very dry conditions for over 20 years. Every year it sustains tip dieback. Sometimes whole 6ft long branches but it keeps coming back and looks beautiful despite the damage. This is in Seattle though, much warmer than where you live I imagine. Hope yours survives, beautiful tree!
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