Q: I live in Corona and planted a Japanese Bloodgood Maple Tree sapling about a year and a half ago. It gets full sun. Last summer the leaves got burned to a crisp, even with an umbrella covering.

I love maple trees but do not have room for large trees on my small lot. I see a lot of Japanese maples. Are they good choices for our area? Other than flowering small trees, Japanese maples are the ...

Dear Neil: We have a home in the Hill Country. Friends in Alabama gave us a small “Bloodgood” Japanese maple. We have kept it in a large pot, but last year its leaves turned brown around the edges and ...

Among the trees I planted in my suburban yard, Japanese maples have grown beautifully. At first I was surprised, since I had (wrongly) assumed these beautiful creatures need a lot of special care. The ...

You won’t stop at just one, once you discover what they can do for your garden: “People get obsessed.” By Margaret Roach Matthew and Timothy Nichols’s story could be a case study of what it means to ...

Everyone loves a Japanese maple, or at least that’s the way it seems. Even novice gardeners will often have a maple at the top of their must-have list. There’s more than one reason for the continuing ...