Tropicals & Tender Perennials: The most beautiful tree in the world, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
This one is just so amazing. I hear there are huge ones in the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Just by coincidence, my DH and I are going to go for a mini getaway there soon. We are going to sit by the ocean and sip good wine. http://www.gardenbythesea.org/

I walked into a nursery in Marin on Sunday and saw it across the entire width of the nursery. It had my name on it. My husband had sent me out to go nursery hopping, I was under orders not to come home for hours. I was a sad sack going thru the motions and then I saw this. My heart literally skipped a few beats.

I am very familiar and in love with all the pink variegated Japanese Maples, this is not a Japanese Maple, but it is far and away much more entertaining than any of them.

This is Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Eskimo Sunset’. You know, I am always going to be a gardener. Plants make me so happy.

The front is a muted pink and in the wind, the leaves flip up and a deep mauve flashes you.

Deb, I am not sure what zone it will tolerate, but it would sure be the focal point of your great backyard.