{"id":322,"date":"2018-04-03T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arborhilltrees.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2018-04-03T17:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:59:57","slug":"top-japanese-maple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arborhilltrees.com\/blog\/top-japanese-maple-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Japanese Maple Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE current trend toward smaller houses and yards spurs interest in scaled\u00ad down trees for the land\u00adscape. These top Japanese maple trees comprise an unusually hand\u00adsome group of plants which merit serious consideration.<\/p>\n

These trees exhibit wide variety in forms, heights at maturity, leaf patterns and spring, summer and fall foli\u00adage colors. They have grace\u00adful habit. The shrubby types have round or globular shapes while the taller\u2010growing, more vigorous kinds have a somewhat open, vaselike crown. Heights vary from dwarf shrubs to small shade trees 20 to 25 feet tall. The leaves are moderately to deeply segmented into five to 11 lobes with some varieties so deeply dissected they ap\u00adpear skeletonize.<\/p>\n

Japanese Maple Trees Colorful Foliage<\/b><\/h2>\n

American gardeners prefer the red or purple types. The Japanese favor the green\u00adleaved forms for their strik\u00adingly handsome fall colors. In Japan the maple is called the \u201cautumn welcoming tree\u201d and it is planted in the western portion of gardens (the direc\u00adtion from which fall comes).<\/p>\n

The Japanese maples are varieties and forms of two species: <\/strong><\/p>\n