The Japanese Maples are Here!
The beautiful Japanese Maples, and select conifers we selected on our summer buying trips have just arrived at the nursery!
Among the most fun and inspiring jobs in the nursery involves the 'hunt' for the best Japanese Maples. Every summer, several of us make the pilgrimage to Oregon, where we search the far reaches of our favorite growers fields to select their prized Japanese Maples and dwarf conifers.
Not only is the trip itself a great adventure, but the quality of the plants grown in Oregon is legendary. We're like kids in a candy shop, as we carefully evaluate each tree for the best branch structure, and anticipate how the new growth will fill out the tree when we receive it.
We then divide the orders into two pieces...a fall shipment based on those trees with exceptional fall color, and a spring shipment for everything else. Though the spring shipment is far larger to match the demand at that time of year, the trees we get in the fall are guaranteed to bring gasps of delight with their astounding colors!
A significant number of the maples we select for Spring delivery have wonderful foliage as well. Some are glowing yellow greens, some are green/white/pink variegated, some are virtually orange, and of course there are whole ranges of reds and greens.
We're proud to display some of these trees right in the front of the nursery, and they typically sell out very quickly. Our customers are pleased to know that they're getting trees with the very best fall color available.