Outstanding foliage color and dense, incredible thick form will make this sport of ‘Bloodgood’ your new favorite Japanese Maple. ‘Shaina’ is smaller and slower growing with a tight, rounded, irregular form that fits a much different role in the landscape. Use it as a large shrub and be dazzled by its smaller, blunt lobed foliage that retains its ability to hold its deep, purple-red foliage color throughout the growing season. In fall, ‘Shaina’ will take on an orange tinge as its foliage gives you a color changeup before dropping to reveal a branching habit that looks superb against the winter snow. 

Leaves are palmate and yellow-green, tinged with red in spring, turning apricot and gold in fall. Winter bark is coral red and the color intensifies to almost salmon as the weather gets colder. Striking fall foliage color and uniquely colorful winter bark display which is best in full sun. Strong growing especially when young. Provide protection from winter winds.

Amaze yourself and spice up your landscape by planting this dense, compact, rounded, spectacular looking color chameleon of a tree. Small, trident shaped foliage flushes in spring with a brilliant pink to red shade that is unique and provides one of the most outstanding spring color shows of any tree you’ll find. But, the color isn’t just a spring fling that comes then goes. While the foliage that has flushed so brightly matures to a deep purplish-green, new foliage that flushes in season will show the same brilliant pink to red of early spring creating an astonishing two-toned look. This small tree makes a perfect specimen for sun or partial shade and even sports a brilliant red fall foliage color.

How can you improve on the beauty of a Japanese Maple? How about providing eye-popping foliage that mixes a rainbow of colors on each leaf? ‘Peaches & Cream’ does just that with deeply cut, hand shaped foliage that emerges in the spring with a combination of peachy-red edges, creamy centers, and deep green veins. This colorful foliage seems to take on a different shade daily as spring progresses until the heat of summer turns the foliage to a lush green with white variegation. The show continues as the weather cools when foliage turns rich yellow with deep red edges before falling off. This plant is a colorful masterpiece that thrives in partial sun and will become a specimen plant that you will treasure.

This compact and upright growing Japanese Maple could be characterized as a large shrub or small tree but it will always be characterized as stunning no matter what category it falls into! With striking orange-yellow foliage, this Japanese Maple is a real stand out right from the early spring as leaves emerge golden with pink edges opening to shades of yellow and orange, depending on light conditions. After a spring and summer of spectacular color the beauty ramps up even more with an even brighter yellow foliage hue for fall. ‘Orange Dream’ is great for a small space or even on a patio as a small specimen tree in a container that will thrive in dappled shade. 

This dwarf, upright designer selection hails from Milan, Italy and will dazzle you with its flamboyant summer coloration, compact, bushy form, and spring foliage that is a shocking pink when it emerges, a sure hit on the runway or in any landscape! Similar to ‘Bloodgood’ in appearance, ‘Fireglow’ produces leaves that mature to an even deeper wine red color than its better known counterpart. This fabulous species is very well branched, known to hold its shape well, extremely heat tolerant and boasts its deep foliage color far into the summer months. And, don’t forget fall with a blazing crimson fall foliage color you just have to experience.

This extremely vigorous selection has dark, purple-red leaves that rival, and maybe even surpass those of ‘Bloodgood’, the standard for Japanese Maples. The result is a colorful, big, beefy specimen tree that will define your landscape. ‘Emperor I’ is easy to grow and will thrive in most sunny or partially shaded landscape exposures, remaining attractive and colorful even into fall when foliage becomes an even darker crimson-red before finally falling.

If you thought you had seen everything that the Japanese Maple world had to offer, guess again! Aggressive growing and upright, ‘Higasayama’ will show you a thing or two about color that you just did not think was possible with this group of plants.  It all starts when its foliage emerges in the early spring.  Its leaves emerge in a wide array of shapes and sizes but its their coloration that will have you rubbing your eyes.  Each leaf is green along the leaf veins with a border of white around the green followed by a band of hot pink that extends right to the edge of the leaf.  It is a brilliant, showy bit of color gymnastics that, while short lived as leaves mature to green with a thin white edge, is riveting.  If that wasn’t enough, its fall color is just as smashing as leaves morph from variegated to brilliant red almost overnight before they drop.  Plant ‘Higasayama’ in a half day of full sun for a specimen that will never fail to get your attention!

Discovered by Cider Hill Farm of Vermont, this selection was chosen for its hardiness and intense fall color. Similiar to ‘Bloodgood’ in appearance and stature, this variety is hardy to zone 4 and changes to a much more intense red in the fall.

‘Butterfly’ has been around for a long time, but is still one of the most underused Japanese Maples and one of the best for giving you outstanding bang for the buck. One look at its incredible foliage will have you hooked right from the start as its emerging foliage is spectacular in the spring with pink margins surrounding deeply cut, small delicate leaves that mature as spring progresses to a soft blue-green shade with a cream colored, pink tinged variegated edge. This color, along with the texture and the fact that the mature leaves curl, give ‘Butterfly’ a unique and very attractive look that you’ll love. ‘Butterfly’ is one of the slowest growing, smallest scale Japanese Maples with its upright, vase shape being perfect for smaller spaces in sun or partial shade.