Who doesn’t love Japanese maples? A stroll through a garden featuring Japanese maples offers a sensory delight at any time of the year. In spring, new growth emerges in colors ranging from lime greens ...

From an aesthetic point of view, Japanese maples have a distinctive architectural beauty year-round but especially after their leaves fall. From a practical perspective, these maple trees are compact ...

'Murasaki Kiyohime' is a great dwarf Japanese maple with dramatic spring color showing red-purple leaf borders with green centers. Its fall color is yellow, orange and red. Howard Garrett / Special ...

Howard Garrett loosens the excess soil with a trowel from a dwarf Japanese maple that had been too deeply packed into a container. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor It is sad but true that almost ...

The American Heritage College Dictionary defines “Dwarf” as “an atypically small animal or plant." “Dwarf” Japanese maples and “dwarf” weeping cherries (or other weeping trees) are extremely popular ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Have a big desire for trees but a pocket-sized yard? Consider planting dwarf trees that won’t overpower your space. These small saplings stay a diminutive 10 ...

Q: Our dwarf Japanese maple tree has grown beautifully for at least 15 years, but then one day last month, boom, the leaves started looking kind of curled. Now they're all both curled and crunchy. I'm ...

Q:I’M inquiring about the availability of dwarf persimmons. A friend has a small yard, and a dwarf tree would be the ideal size. A: There are many different types of dwarf fruit trees, but I’m not ...

Friendly Guide to Growing, Shaping, and Maintaining Healthy Bonsai Trees at Home. The art of bonsai is believed to have origina ...

As spring unfolds, the deep red blooms of red maple trees along the roadsides and in the woods really stand out. Within days, the blooms fall onto the pavement like blood-red snow. Did you know that ...