Very strange year for Hōgyoku, usually pumpkin orange under all circumstances; but I guess burnt leaves go red. Kinugasa-yama and Chitose-yama are short of peak but moving fast. I think I may miss them this weekend. More pics of Mint Chocolate Curl doing its great fall thing. The grafts are similar, so I think it is keeping the characteristic (of the flipped big leaves also), but it turns out they blew into some nettles during Amy, and I only found them after a search. The leaves have been munched by slugs, so I've not photographed. -E
Same problem this year with mine , one half of the tree the usual orange and then the other half red ,the sun over the past few months plus the omission of a regular supply of water has certainly affected numerous trees which i would be expecting to now see the colours they are usually renowned for ??
Osakazuki - I must repot it before Spring, I can’t overlook it another year, it’s in a 220ltr pot but been in that for 7 years (since I root pruned it) and the root mass is solid Wakehurst pink Metamophosa
3 five year old seedlings - been growing very slowly but now have 15mm trunks. Last pic is Palmatum Sharon, nice orange/red
Colours are changing rapidly : heat, then rain probably. See 'Shishigashira' for instance : Atrolineare, Acer griseum, and Acer pseudosieboldianum 'North Wind' are among the best ones today : I was afraid Acer laevigatum wouldn't make it, but our winters here have beem warmer since when I bought it in 2021, and it's alive and well ! The one I call "Shirpal" because the leaves look a bit like shirasawanum, but are much smaller, a bit bigger than palmatum. Perhaps a hybrib (I'd love that !) or anything else. Anyway, always has very nice autumn colours. Others :
It’s a funny year for Autumn colour, that Shishigashira is positively glowing whereas the normally reliable Osakazuki is pretty average, no nuclear glow this year
Jordan, and a few seedlings (French : semis) before the storm takes away the leaves (gusts of wind expected at 80km/h here) The last one may be elegantulum, but I'm not sure...
Catching up with a few pics. Had a great (and very well attended) WE with TMSBI, but didn't take a single one! The unlabeled A. amoenum just starting to turn is 'Utsusemi'. My two grafts of Mint Chocolate Curl have recovered and are doing what they're supposed to, so I took a couple of pics. -E
I've been a little lazy on the photo front. Here are a few container shots taken yesterday Oct.25 We had a very dry fall, now comes the fall rain on an almost daily basis. Coloration has been nice so far. Fireglow Iijama sunago and Seiryu Sangu kaku, pixie and viridis in the courtyard
This one is a seedling from the type that I forgot in the back of my garden, it was about 15-20 cm at that time and is now about 2 metres...
Here are some more pics, it seems I've taken rather a lot over the last while. I am completely obsessed with 'Utsusemi'.
I'm a new fan of 'Suffer for Fashion'. You know if you write the names on the photos but don't list them in the text, they will not come up on a search, right? @emery, you and others will at least find the 'Utsusemi' photos because you mentioned your obsession with it, but not the others like the 'Orangeola' or the 'Suffer for Fashion'.
That's a great point, thanks @wcutler . I put the names in the photos for myself, so I don't forget, but I hadn't thought about the searchability. 'Suffer for Fashion' is looking good, it suffered a lot this year, and so has great fall colors. Unfortunately none of my grafts of it took, so it's a little behind in the evaluation process. I need to check if any of the other grafters succeeded, and if so what the liners look like. You never know until you graft. I was sure the sycamore I've been calling Orange Parfait was going to be great, but the graft is very "meh." It may well be that it looks so good because of the location where it grows... -E
I must admit I'm a rather disorderly person, but I classify my photos in different computer folders by name, then inside each folder by date. For instance, in My computer : Folder : Shirasawanum_Jordan File : -> acer-shir-jordan_251023a-jpg Once posted : https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/attachments/acer-shir-jordan_251023a-jpg.260706/
Alain, that's for you, but others searching for photos of those cultivars among all the postings will only find what was named in text in the postings. I'm just thinking of these forums as a resource, but that "acer-shir-jordan" in the file name will only come up on a search if it's named in the text as well. You think of your photos as pretty pictures for the moment, but I think of them as a great treasury, but only if you can find stuff.
OK, thanks, I understand what you mean now. I will make the effort to name the trees and not the photos from now on. Never too late to learn. I thought it was the name of the photo you were referring to. --- A photo of Acer trifolium I took on my morning walk by the Loire : ... should be found if I didn't make a spelling mistake ;-)
Well, you need both - text in the postings for searchers, but in the photo names for your own storage. If you use the full name in your photo names before you post, you can copy that part and paste it into the postings, so it's not entirely double work. I've seen people here make a list in the text of all the tree names, might be easier when you're doing a posting with around 20 photos like in the one above by @emery.
The forum is indeed a treasury of information, practically unparalleled on the internet. I already intended to remind our members about it in our next eBulletin; it's a shame that social media in general has gained to the detriment of resources like this. Alain I assume you mean "triflorum", so named because the flowers are always group in threes. Well, this makes more work though. Apologies for lack of italics. Here we have Utsusemi (again) Acer pubipalmatum Acer palmatum and Acer sieboldianum 'Kinugasa-yama' Koto-no-ito Variegated selection (plus dog) x2 Acer wilsonii Acer pictum 'Aki-kaze-nishiki' Acer leucoderme Kinugasa-yama Ume-ga-e Acer griseum and Emerald Lace Chitose-yama carpet of leaves Yasemin Vic Pink Acers schneiderianum, amplum subsp. catalpifolium, Fior d'Arancio Canopy mixing Acers amplum subsp. catalpifolium, palmatum and Fior d'Arancio Cosmos Veitchii Acer stachyophyllum
I agree. Yet, it's like when I used cardboard folders for texts : where to dispatch them, and what's the best way of classyifying things. I still have many folders to sort out, I binned many papers from my shelves, put books I'll never read again in the "book box" on my way, but it's such a whole lot of things to trow away (some of them having sort of an "affective" label), others being what you really need to keep.
