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Suitable for small gardens, Cornus kousa ‘Summer Gold’ (Dogwood) is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub or small tree of upright spreading habit. In spring, a profusion of creamy-white flowers, or bracts, smother the tree, creating a striking floral show.
Summer Gold is a great Acer palmatum that displays a showy golden yellow color throughout the summer. Unlike other yellow-leaved Japanese maple varieties, Summer Gold promises to keep it color even in hot sunny conditions better than others.
Acer palmatum 'Summer Gold' Golden Yellow - Heat Tolerant Japanese Maple Zones 5-9 'Summer Gold' leafs out as bright chartreuse to yellow green with a red border. The leaf on 'Summer Gold' brightens to gold as the summer progresses providing a dynamic contrast with both red and green maples.
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Summer Gold Chinese Dogwood features showy clusters of white flowers with white bracts held atop the branches from mid to late spring. It has attractive gold-variegated green foliage with hints of pink. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding crimson in the fall.
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‘Crimson Queen’ seems to make everybody’s “best of” list and it’s no wonder – she’s hard to beat. The dramatically weeping, compact shape requires no pruning to maintain. ‘Crimson Queen’ is a fairly slow grower, so you won’t have to fight to keep her petite either. Once mature, after about 20 years, she’ll be about 10 feet wide and tall. The cascad...
Noted Japanese maple breeder Skeeter Rod discovered ‘Elizabeth,’ which he named for his wife, as a mutation. Thank goodness he did. This A. palmatumcultivar is an ever-evolving stunner. In the spring, the leaves are bright red before changing to lime green and red in the summer. By fall, ‘Elizabeth’ changes her outfit once again to a vibrant scarle...
It can be a challenge to find dwarf Japanese maples (or any Japanese maples) that thrive in Zone 4b, but ‘Fireball’ seemingly creates its own heat. It was discovered as a witches’-broom, or a genetic mutation marked by unusual growth, on a tree in New Jersey. If you’re unfamiliar with Japanese maple types, witches’-brooms feature a middle lobe that...
This tree lives up to its name with twisting, turning branches that almost resemble a contorted filbert (Corylus avellana‘Contorta’) only with classic Japanese maple foliage. At most, it will grow to seven feet tall and up to 12 feet wide, with a gracefully arching habit. ‘Germaine’s Gyration’ In the spring and summer, the leaves are bright green t...
A. palmatum var. dissectum, ‘Inaba Shidare’ is striking. The foliage is bright, bold red and each leaf is massive, with each one spanning six inches wide or more. But the leaves don’t just produce a solid mass of color. Each one is deeply lobed and highly serrated, resembling massive strips of red lace. It’s delicate and arresting, all at once. A l...
A weeping, cascading type that grows to just eight feet tall and five feet wide, A. palmatum var. dissectum‘Jeddeloh Orange’ will always draw comments. The lacy, serrated leaves start the year with a pleasant orange hue before shifting to green with orange highlights in the summer. ‘Jeddeloh Orange’ It changes color once again in the fall, transiti...
This Japanese maple cultivar, sometimes written as ‘Karasu Gawa,’ puts on an extremely dramatic show for such a tiny specimen. Reaching a height under eight feet when mature, the early spring foliage is pink but transitions to white during the spring. Not every leaf will become totally white, however. You’ll see speckles and streaks of white on a p...
Providing a weeping constellation of leaves, ‘Orion’ grows just four feet tall and seven feet wide within about 15 years. While the deeply lobed, heavily serrated leaves have a beautiful shape, it’s the color that will have you seeing stars. In the spring, this huntsman’s cloak is solid, bright red. By summer, the leaves have red margins and orange...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a Japanese maple with more finely cut, delicate leaves. Each leaf is heavily serrated and extremely thin, like red threads dangling in the breeze on a weeping tree. Within about 15 years, this variety reaches four feet tall and five feet wide. Unlike some red maples, this one doesn’t lose its vibrant color in partial s...
‘Bloodgood’ is one of the most popular Japanese maples in North America, but it isn’t a dwarf tree. ‘Rhode Island Red,’ however, takes all the things we love about ‘Bloodgood’ and smooshes it down into a perfectly reduced size. It leafs out in crimson red before settling into burgundy during the summer. And then it transitions back to bright red in...
Summer Gold Japanese Maple emerges in spring with lite green-yellow leaves. This Japanese maple does not burn in the sun as most lightly colored Japanese maples do, making this a great tree to plant in a more sunny area of your landscape.
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Living up to its name, the Summer Gold Japanese Maple is adorned with bright golden-yellow leaves that hold their stunning color throughout the summer. The leaves don't burn in full sun and the heat and humidity here in our north-central Georgia gardens don't phase it. Get all the details below!
