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The Japanese maples are lighting up our garden in shades of yellow, pumpkin, maroon, and red. This is palmatum maple Oshio Beni, a very old standby, having been introduced over a hundred years ago. It is rock hardy here, suffering only some small twig loss in very cold winters. We have a pair of them each almost twenty feet tall, which is their mature size. They open their leaves a bright orange red in the spring, fade to brick red in the summer, then turn flaming scarlet in fall.


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