Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
If you were to make a tree out of flaky pastry, you might be fortunate enough to come up with something approaching the paperbark maple, which seems permanently to be sloughing off its outer layers. Quite why we find this attractive in trees, but not in humans or other mammals, I’m not entirely sure, but we do, and Acer griseum does it with great delicacy, the peeling bark revealing the cinnamon tones of the layer beneath. Add to this the trifoliate leaves which colour to a bright orange-red at this time of year, its relatively slow growth and reasonably modest size, and you’ve a grand tree for a small to medium sized garden.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
