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Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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Posted by benjamin85 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 20, 09 at 9:48
Hy,
i am looking for a Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar that is not getting too big (something like a dwarf - 6m height maybe).
Do you know one?
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RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| There are some, but they're hideous ;-) Resin |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| 'Hideous' may be in the eye of the beholder :-) Some folks just don't like variegated plants......others do. Most of the variegated/colored forms of pseudoplatanus will stay within your height requirements - 'Brilliantissimum', 'Prinz Handjery', 'Puget Pink', 'Esk Sunset'. I grew 'Puget Pink' in my previous garden for a number of years and it grew into a lovely little tree - coral pink new growth in spring morphed into a bright chartreuse green in summer and an apricot-gold fall color. |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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- Posted by brandon7 6b (like 7b now) TN (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 20, 09 at 10:42
| Surely if Resin saw 'Esk Sunset', he'd fall instantly in love. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mendocino Maples Nursery (has perfect G.W. rating)
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| ignore resin.. he is a species snob.. lol ... surprised a GW search didnt pic up these pix.. that i posted last week .... purchased as eskimo sunset ... bboy claims otherwise ... i dont doubt him... both names are the SAME plant ... the backs of the leaves is maroon .... VERY slow for me ... ken 
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RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 20, 09 at 13:18
| Look for 'Brilliantissimum'. Note that 'Prinz Handjery' has been sold in its place in the past, the true item does not have purplish leaf undersides. Material distributed as 'Puget Pink' derives from 'Prinz Handjery' and has the same basic characteristics. |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| "Surely if Resin saw 'Esk Sunset', he'd fall instantly in love" . . . with the person who cut it off just below the graft line . . . ;-) Yeeuck! What a hideous, diseased-looking monstrosity! Now a decent mature wild-type Acer pseudoplatanus, that's a magnificent tree, tho' a mite on the large side for the OP . . . Resin |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| as i said .... IGNORE HIM.. when it comes to anything but green ... lol ken |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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| Hey Ken, What's happened to your usual views on maples?? Thought you wouldn't tolerate them anywhere in sight! ;-) |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 21, 09 at 20:25
| Quite recent on the local market but I have already encountered 'Esk Sunset' in street-side gardens here well above my head in height, with the pointed top of a young maple of nearly normal vigor. It being a variegated form, with clownish leaf color patterns it is not the same type as 'Brilliantissimum' and 'Prinz Handjery', with pinkish new growth slowly turned into a stippled leaf that looks like it has a mite problem. These are decidedly slower- and smaller-growing than normal. |
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| lol resin... it is placed.. where i do NOT try to grow things under it .... my hatred of maples involves TRYING TO GROW A GARDEN UNDER MAPLE .... in the long run.. it doesnt work ken |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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Hy,
nice information!
What about 'Sun gold'?. Any experience? Benjamin |
RE: Searching Acer pseudoplatanus cultivar
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Sorry,
the cultivar is called Acer pseudoplatanus 'Spring Gold'! benjamin |
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