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Introducing my new baby Japanese maple (Acer palmatum Atropurpureum)!
It will be at its best in fall obviously, and it hasn't had time to start growing roots and flourishing yet. Not totally prepossessing yet, but it SHOULD eventually look more like this:
I've been coveting one of these since I arrived at the garden department at work 4 weeks ago, but I was stopping myself from buying new trees willy-nilly: we have lots of trees (lots of ordinary maples even) and if anything we need more sunlight, not less. ...However, after Midsummer summer plant sales drop off dramatically, so I spent all Friday putting -50% stickers on things with my coworker. And when Wax saw it on sale, she actually read the tag and saw that it's actually a shade-tolerant bush-sized cultivar (under 2 meters), and concluded I should just buy it since I want it so much. It fits nicely in with our plan to fill in the shade garden corner with more bushes.
Meanwhile, Tristana is recovering nicely.
She's been a tiny bit subdued the last two days, but her painkiller prescription has run out and she's running and bouncing again right on schedule today.
It will be at its best in fall obviously, and it hasn't had time to start growing roots and flourishing yet. Not totally prepossessing yet, but it SHOULD eventually look more like this:
I've been coveting one of these since I arrived at the garden department at work 4 weeks ago, but I was stopping myself from buying new trees willy-nilly: we have lots of trees (lots of ordinary maples even) and if anything we need more sunlight, not less. ...However, after Midsummer summer plant sales drop off dramatically, so I spent all Friday putting -50% stickers on things with my coworker. And when Wax saw it on sale, she actually read the tag and saw that it's actually a shade-tolerant bush-sized cultivar (under 2 meters), and concluded I should just buy it since I want it so much. It fits nicely in with our plan to fill in the shade garden corner with more bushes.
Meanwhile, Tristana is recovering nicely.
She's been a tiny bit subdued the last two days, but her painkiller prescription has run out and she's running and bouncing again right on schedule today.
