Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening end of April 2014 continuation, 1 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
SSG, here is my maple this morning. Like I said, he gave me these two offspring last summer when I had only been gardening a few months. He showed me his mature Higasayama (very pretty). As I recall, the babies were green-leafed at the time, and he told me how Higasayama changes colors depending on the amount of light it receives. It's possible he was incorrect about everything and maybe these are not Higasayamas at all but some other type of Japanese maple. Mine has maroon leaves right now, but I recall it as green-leafed when he gave them to me last summer (do you recall what yours looked like then?), and at the time I thought it matched the online photos I was seeing of Higasayama. Hopefully they are indeed Higasayama and will change colors.