This is a wonderful tree to have in the gardens, makes a wonderful garden anchor. The leaves are beautiful. The only problem we have had...Read More is the bark is spliting on the south and west sides of the trunk.
I was looking to plant a tree to honor my late father and since he
worked at a beautiful new elementary school in our neighborhood...Read More it was gladdly planted in the center of a large
3 acre area in front of the school. The Katsura was chosen
as my dad was very tall and this tree is so elegant and
stately. I planted the 6 ft. tree in 1998 and the first fall
boy did I smell that burned sugar smell at certain times the
wind blew threw it and where you were standing. It has
lemon and apricot colored leaves in the fall, just beautiful. In the
spring a purple/pink tiny leave emerges with some tangling
stuff and as the leaves grow they begin turning a heart shaped blue/green
and this tree has grown quite fast since 1998. I'd say this
multi trunked beauty is now approx. 20+ feet and has
a pyramid shape. I make sure I give it plenty of water during
dry spells and it does its own thing. I've made a huge
planted bed with the Katsura the center piece,which also has heritage roses, bonica roses, creeping ajuga pink metalliac colors,
miscanthus morning light, and some really beautiful
reddish/purple peonies as well as some northern oats grass,
everything just blows in the wind in the fall and its unreal.
These trees should be planted in the northeast especially
as they seem to just love this type of weather.
The leaves of this much-revered wonderful Japanese tree are blue-green in summer and turn a buttery yellow with tones of apricot and oran...Read Morege in the fall. The fallen leaves emit a delightful cinnamon-sugar smell.
Planted this tree at about 5 ft. in poor clayey soil on an east facing hillside and is in second year and doing fine. Gets late afternoo...Read Moren shade. The leaves that in autuum are said to smell like cinnamon, but have not had that pleasure yet. This tree can live to be many hundreds of years old, and is prized in Japanese gardens.
Has gracefull weeping form and is especially nice where afternoon sun can backlight it. Leaves are a blue gray, and it can be mistaken for a form of Ecalyptus. The roots are said to be large and strong so not the tree to plant next to a foundation or wall.
Graceful tree. 'Morioka Weeping' is taller than wide whereas 'Pendula' is wider than tall.
The Bad
Intolerant of drought and should be protected from direct exposure to wind.
Can lift Sidewalk, shollow roof...Read More
This is a wonderful tree to have in the gardens, makes a wonderful garden anchor. The leaves are beautiful. The only problem we have had...Read More
I was looking to plant a tree to honor my late father and since he
worked at a beautiful new elementary school in our neighborhood...Read More
The leaves of this much-revered wonderful Japanese tree are blue-green in summer and turn a buttery yellow with tones of apricot and oran...Read More
Planted this tree at about 5 ft. in poor clayey soil on an east facing hillside and is in second year and doing fine. Gets late afternoo...Read More