Japanese maples come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors, growth habits and foliage types, offering the home gardener myriad choices to suit their individual taste. All of these trees get ...

This column originally ran in the Sept. 28, 2006, Homes & Gardens of the Northwest. I'm a firm believer that nothing stamps a garden as one's own as much as planting a tree. Not only does it ...

You won’t stop at just one, once you discover what they can do for your garden: “People get obsessed.” By Margaret Roach Matthew and Timothy Nichols’s story could be a case study of what it means to ...

We have a beautiful red ornamental Japanese Maple tree for years and now it’s grown so much that it’s starting to cover my bathroom window. When is the best time to prune this tree, and I mean really ...

Cultivated in Japan for more than 300 years, the Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) has long been revered for its gracefulness and color. Depending on the cultivar or breed of tree, the maple leaves may ...