1/15/2024 0 Comments Flame amur maple tree factsNo one bothered to tell the landscape architects, who filled the vast parking lot of this box store with them-and each and every one of them are blazing in DIFFERENT colors, and looking mighty healthy! So of course, Amur maples in Denver are frequently chlorotic, and usually not recommended by horticulturists "in the know". No wonder the tree is so cold hardy! But that area is also Maritime-and the soils are podzoils: generally acid, more like the soils of our upper Midwest and New England. As the name suggests, Amur maples originate in the Amur river region of East Asia, the river that separates Manchuria from Siberia. This is NOT the same maple as the one with Scott above-this is an Amur Maple ( Acer ginnala) I photographed today (October 20) on West Colfax in front of a Box Store which I am NOT endorsing (although I confess I did by 50 of awesome plants while I was there.). Here he is standing in front of.well.you shall have to wait and see (I have my crafty ways of making you read all the way to the bottom of my blog posting!). Scott Skogerboe has always been one of mine: Head of propagation at Fort Collins Nursery Wholesale, he and his boss, Gary Epstein have been the force behind most of the woody plant introductions of Plant Select. Farm & historical homestead in Littleton, COĮveryone should have a hero.
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