Striped Maple is an important wildlife food, a favorite for many woodland critters and its nectar is important to honeybees. Typically grown as a small tree it can also grow as a large shrub in the wild.

Destined to be a landscape classic, this bright green leaved selection of weeping Maple creates a flowing landscape form with layers of pendulous branches covered with deeply lobed, threadlike leaves producing superb texture. This plant makes the perfect specimen and is stunning when used near a water garden and in the fall when it reveals a bright yellow show of fall color.

There are plenty of red dissected leaved Maples out there but ‘Viridis’ with its bright, light to medium green foliage may be the showiest of all the dissected leaved Maples. Leaves unfold in April with a delicate, thread-like look that belies the aggressive growth this plant maintains. This foliage gives the spreading, flowing form of this plant a frilly texture, lending to its appeal as a great specimen. Fall foliage color is outstanding as the green turns into bright, brassy yellow-orange shades that are traffic stopping.

Great texture and great leaf color combine to make this one of the most desired threadleaf Japanese Maples. With low, spreading form, ‘Tamukeyama’s’ highly cut foliage holds its deep purple color all season and makes a perfect specimen for any landscape.

Lacy, deeply cut foliage can be up to 6 inches long and wide with striking red color providing great landscape texture. Red color is retained in summer and turns orange-red in fall.

Beautiful and compact, cascading branching make this Maple a perfect choice for the landscape, along with stunning, fine textured deep, dark red foliage that holds its stunning color all summer long, even in bright sun. While all Threadleaf Japanese Maples are beautiful, ‘Red Dragon’ distinguishes itself with a slightly more open form that fits in well with a less formal, more leisurely landscape. As fall approaches, this great specimen becomes even showier with foliage morphing to a brilliant crimson shade before falling off.

With a dense, spreading, cascading form, this plant will weave its way through your landscape with a highly textured brush featuring its large, broadly dissected threadlike foliage that begs to be touched. This hard to resist foliage emerges in early spring bright red then matures to a stunning, substantial purple-garnet red color in the summer. Finally, the color show comes to an autumn climax with a piercingly warm orange color that is definitely one-of-a-kind. This combination of unmatched form and unmatched foliage color has made ‘Garnet’ one of the most decorated trees in horticulture including winning the Royal Horticulture Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

This selection is one of the more aggressively growing dissected leaf types and one of the most hardy. Lacy, deeply cut foliage can be up to 6″ long and wide with striking purple-red color providing great landscape texture on a rounded, flowing plant that makes a distinctive specimen. Leaves morph to a crimson red shade in the fall.

This strong growing beauty combines cascading, flowing branch habit and the finest, filigree-textured leaves to create a specimen that elicits more than its share of oohs and aahs! The foliage of this weeping masterpiece demands to be touched and possesses a bronzy-red color. New foliage emerges crimson red, holding that tinge until all the foliage turns a stunning, orange-red shade in the fall.

Try this Japanese Maple for some landscape wow power in the form of great variegated foliage and outstanding, unique form. Ukigumo is Japanese for ‘Floating Cloud Tree’ which seems fitting given its layered, wide vase-like shape. Its coloration may contribute to this memorable name, too with leaves unfurling in a dizzying array of different blothches and combinations of green, white and pink that makes every ‘Ukigumo’ tree absolutely unique. It is a specimen that few will have and almost everyone will notice! ‘Ukigumo’ prefers a morning sun/afternoon shade location with moist, well drained soil to thrive.