Description
Grace you home sweet home with either
- an upright varieties
Acer palmatum dissectum
Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ with a coral bark. Young leaves are lime green and turn yellow in autumn before they fall.
- or a weeping variety
Acer palmatum ‘Chantilly Lace’ . In spring, orange/red leaves emerge changing to green in summer. Golden yellow to electric day-glow red in autumn. A vigorous and extremely hardy variety. Place in full sun for best autumn colour.Acer Palmatum Dissectum.
A deciduous tree, it will be bare for around 2 to 3 months. Buds will grow in August and your Japanese maple kokedama will get new leaves in spring. You may prune it after all the leaves have fallen.
Location:
Indoors: hanging or standing in a bright position with at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight in summer.
Outdoors: stunning on a porch or outside a window with morning or late afternoon sun. Protect from frost in Winter and drying winds in summer.
Watering: Japanese maples are not drought tolerant, but they don’t like soggy roots. When the moss ball is half dry, water from the top (if twined with jute string) or soak the moss ball in water (if twined with nylon string). It may loose its leaves prematurely if it dries out. Reduce watering and food in autumn and winter.
Your Japanese maple will require regular watering in spring as it gets the leaves out.
Add liquid fertiliser or worm juice to the watering water once a month in the growing season.
