Love maple flowers

[Kodama16]

Spring coming in now and all my maples are budding out. I just wanted to share some flowers with y'all. I love them. My favorite part on a maple is when a tree has hundred of these flowers hanging.

Ps how do I stop my photos from turning sideways?

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Is that palmatifolium? The contrast between the colors of the flower and leaves looks superb.

 

[GrimLore]

Very nice! If the snow would "flower" this place would be beautiful!

Grimmy

 

[lordy]

Spring coming in now and all my maples are budding out. I just wanted to share some flowers with y'all. I love them. My favorite part on a maple is when a tree has hundred of these flowers hanging.

Ps how do I stop my photos from turning sideways?

keep your phone horizontal. that does it for me. No vertical format shots as with a camera. BTW, what's that green thing above the red stuff in your pic? Still getting snow here today. Retirement where snow is rare is sounding like a great idea. I've got the other temp extreme covered already.

 

[coh]

Nice pic...would also like to know the variety.

Someone in the local club (it might be Bill V) has a beautiful small maple that produces similar hanging red flowers in the spring. The contrast with the light green foliage is simply beautiful. I can't remember the variety but am pretty sure it's one of the dwarfs... Hopefully I'll get to see it this spring.

Chris

 

[discusmike]

Doesn't have the deep red margins my palmatums and dwarfs get in spring

 

[Kodama16]

I have over 100 maples, and more coming, so hard to remember the types. But this one is wake hurst pink. : )

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I know how addicting and expensive collecting momiji can get with there being so many different cultivars. I restrained myself and stopped at about 15. If money wasn't a concern, I would've continued to get more until I had a few hundred.

 

[Beng]

I have over 100 maples, and more coming, so hard to remember the types. But this one is wake hurst pink. : )

Beautiful, how old does a maple have to be to flower like that?

 

[coh]

After doing some research, I think the variety I've seen with the nice hanging red flowers in spring may be shishigashira...though I'm sure there are a number of similar cultivars out there.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Beautiful, how old does a maple have to be to flower like that?

From what I gather, Acer palamatums and other "Japanese" maples grown from seed take at least 4+years to start blooming. Others make blooms sooner.

 

[Kodama16]

Beautiful, how old does a maple have to be to flower like that?

This one was a graft done in 2013 however I don't know the age of the mother plant. From seed I think it's 7years. But normally when getting grafted material it always comes from a aged plant. So normal if your conditions are right you sould get flowers. My maples flower all year long. Not same time though. Each variat has its own time. Regular red maples from lowes I have flower 3-4 times a year. Right now my large red has flower pods. I know they also flower every fall.

 

[Kodama16]

From what I gather, Acer palamatums and other "Japanese" maples grown from seed take at least 4+years to start blooming. Others make blooms sooner.

Yea 4 that's what I ment...