My Acer - 'what a whopper' !!

Gardening to 'grow your own food' from square foot to half an acre !!
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My Acer - 'what a whopper' !!

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I have to admit to being rather proud of this !!

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Beautiful, mine is a baby compared to that
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I call it 'The Sleeping Poodle' !

It's about the only plant, apart from the vegetables' which I really like.
The Lane is a Public Footpath and loads of people admire it.

Obviously I didn't start it off and should I ever move, would love to take it with me - but won't go in the back of a Cinquecento!

I would imagine it's worth a few bob ? (not that I'd sell it)
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That's beautiful!!!!
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Gorgeous!


(and the vegetation ain't bad either )t' )
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Post by Richard »

Yeah 8)


In a couple of weeks time it could be like this again......

http://www.downthelane.net/acer.html

(from a Diary entry last Novemeber with 60mph winds)
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What a stunning tree! It would be worth heaps if sold in a nursery.
I'd love a collection myself but I've got to find a spot that doesn't have the severe spring frosts. Does yours suffer if you get late frosts?

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Forgive me if I'm being dumb...........but is that a Japanese Maple??
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Hi morph,

Interesting, so I google imaged the Maple ^b: . Some of them were exactly the same as mine with longish thin leaves and others were the shape of a traditional maple leaf.

Anyways, I found one which was called.....

Japanese Maple 'Acer japonicum'

So I guess they're the same thing.

I'm confused now :? ^b:
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Post by lancashire lass »

It is very pretty Richard. I have a baby dwarf variety exactly the same and this year it seemed to be more noticeable in its autumn colours than in the other 5 years so I know I have something to look forward to every year now. I hope in time mine grows as big as your tree! :-D
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Post by morph »

That makes sense to me Richard - it looked like a Japanese maple to me (I have a titchy one in a pot), but I've never heard of Acer.

It's very very lovely, and would be worth lots in a garden centre!!!
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We call them Japanese Maple over here, but a relative in the UK - who collects them, calls them Acers - so Acer is probably the true botanical name.

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Thanks Jodi. I'd take a close up of the leaves, but in the last week, they've shrivelled and most have fallen off.

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