One of my favorite things about sharing a love for gardening with my dad is our passing on of notes and lessons. I'll often turn to him for some advice and he likewise calls on me if something isn't ...

Q: Our dwarf Japanese maple tree has grown beautifully for at least 15 years, but then one day last month, boom, the leaves started looking kind of curled. Now they're all both curled and crunchy. I'm ...

From an aesthetic point of view, Japanese maples have a distinctive architectural beauty year-round but especially after their leaves fall. From a practical perspective, these maple trees are compact ...

Japanese maple leaves often emerge a colorful purple and then fade to bronze-green during the summer. (ELLIS LUCIA, NOLA.com | THE TIMES-PICAYUNE archive) Question: The leaves on my Japanese maple ...

What causes Japanese maple tree leaves to turn brown? Veronica Allen of Huntington Beach wrote our Garden Clinic about a Japanese maple, about 10 years old, whose leaves turn brown on the edges in ...

With the passage of time, old friends become especially dear and are to be cherished, and for the Earth Lady and other like-minded souls, the same holds true for old trees. Through the years, these ...

Autumn is here bringing with it the fiery colors of maple trees turning. This is the best time of year to buy deciduous tree that provides seasonal fall color. Take a ride around the neighborhood, the ...

My friend Jane Antley lives in the borough of West Chester. She emailed me last month with a question about leaf drop. “I’ve been meaning to write to you for several weeks about something that has me ...

Cool mornings bring a message of changing seasons on the way. After our record-breaking dry spell and heat, it almost sounds appealing. Yes, autumn is just around the corner. Not to despair — fall ...

“Acer palmatumitis: A somewhat contagious mental condition of a gardener who shows extreme addiction to Japanese maples of any kind. Symptoms include having multiple specimens in a landscape, followed ...