This post is a little late in coming, especially since I actually received my Father’s Day present from my wife and children a couple weeks early. They gave me a Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum). I always like unique plants in the garden and a Japanese maple adds some foliar interest with its delicately shaped and burgundy colored leaves. I have a great place to put it, right next to our backyard patio…oh wait I still need to build that! Well until then I’ll pot it up in a larger pot with some soil to allow it to grow a healthy root system. Japanese maples actually make good potted plants since they are generally slow growing and tend to be smaller sized trees.
We used to have a Japanese maple in a pot but the frost last year destroyed it beyond recovery.
This week has been a busy one and we just back into town so I haven’t gotten to all the posts I had planned for last week yet. I’ll have my woodland shade garden post ready very soon. We finished it up last weekend when we were preparing for my brother-in-law’s wedding.
Great gift!
Congrats on the maple dad! We have two and love them…
Happy Father’s Day some days late! That is a wonderful gift and you will smile when you look at it years from now remembering the gift.
Gail
VERY nice! You’ll love it. And if you don’t, I’ll send you my address so you can ship it to me. 😉
Ditto Dave on Kylee’s comment.