![]() We did our best to pull away all the burlap to let the roots breathe. Typical with HD, the root ball had a lot of clay packed into it. We JUST planted a Bloodgood from Home Depot about 4 weeks back. Our Japanese Maple victim count is up to two over here and I’m worried we’re nearing three. My husband and I are well versed at killing trees. Fertilizer with something organic like fish emulsion fertilizer, Millorganite, or another organic fertilizer. That’s what all plants, especially Japanese maples need.īut not all of us have good soil in our yards so what do we do. For years and years vegetation falls to the earth and rots and becomes topsoil. Really good topsoil is just that, organic matter. What a Japanese maple really needs is good rich soil that contains a significant amount of organic matter. What Should I Use to Fertilize My Japanese Maple? Most ornamental plants physically cannot grow fast enough to use that much nitrogen and the overload of nitrogen will kill them almost immediately. Nitrogen drives top growth, vegetative growth, on plants. A bag of 14-14-14 garden fertilizer contains 14% Nitrogen, 14% Phosphorous and 14% potassium.Īnd as soon as you apply it and it gets wet, bam! All 14% of that nitrogen is released immediately. Our low graft has a lot of side branching coming in on a much lower point.Īdditional tags: Japanese Maples, MrMaple Show,, Buy Acer Palmatum Crimson Queen at MrMaple.Garden fertilizers are designed to be immediate release. The high graft allows the tree to have a little bit of height before it cascades and umbrellas out, and definitely raises up a lot before you get a lot of lateral and weeping branching. Our 1 gallon Crimson Queens offered at our nursery are both high and low grafted. An aptly named tree, Crimson Queen is a tree that anyone can remember and pronounce, as well as very fun and one of the most popular trees. This makes the Crimson Queen easily identifiable, and is one of the reasons why this tree is such a beauty in the landscape. Crimson Queen has one of the most divided leaves, so those serrations are some of the sharpest of a needle lace leaf. One of the nice things about the Crimson Queen is that it is a lace leaf Japanese Maple, which means that the lobes on the leaf are heavily, deeply divided. This tree is good for Zones 5-9, so it will grow in a lot of different places all across the country as long as you give it some protection from the hot afternoon sun. Late into the summer, this tree is a wonderful low weeping tree, and great for container growing. We typically recommend Crimson Queen for a late day shade that's going to give you your most impressive colors. It is going to have a dense, low, cascading umbrella, which makes the classic weeping Japanese Maple shape. Crimson Queen grows approximately 3-4 feet tall by about 5-6 feet wide within 15-20 years, a smaller sized tree. The spring color can fade to a lighter red and the fall colors are exuberant bright scarlet reds. Crimson Queen can go in extreme shades and still have a very dark maroon, one of the boldest colors of all the lace leaves. ![]() ![]() About Crimson QueenĬrimson Queen has exceptional spring colors, a dark maroon with a subtle lace leaf style foliage that is great for holding it's color in late day shade. To purchase Crimson Queen directly from our website, click here. In this Episode of the MrMaple Show, Tim and Matt talk about Acer Palmatum 'Crimson Queen'. ![]()
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