Majestic characters for the large garden
Two native maple species line avenues and are useful as powerful shade providers. Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Norway maple (Acer platanoides) stretch up to 30 meters towards the sky and attract everyone's attention with their protruding crowns. Owners of large parks and gardens will enjoy these two giants.
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Elegant shapes and colors - maples for the ornamental garden
In modern garden design, space is in short supply. A colorful array of beautiful maple species and varieties is perfect for use as a house tree, a decorative eye-catcher in the front yard or frames the property as an opaque hedge. The following selection presents the most beautiful candidates for the ornamental garden:
- Globe maple globosum: 4-6 m high and just as wide with a spherical crown and splendid autumn color
- Blood maple Faassens Black: 12-15 m high, with dark red, five-lobed decorative leaves until late autumn
- Field maple (Acer campestre): shrub-like growth, tolerates pruning, the ideal hedge plant
Are you in the mood for rare types of maple for your garden? Then we would like to recommend the innovative Acer conspicuum “Phoenix” cultivar to you. The shrubby maple trumps with its red bark, which provides beautiful accents in the appearance of your garden even after the leaves have fallen in autumn.
Asian charm for beds and balconies - maple has what it takes
The delicate maple varieties (Acer palmatum) found their way to us from Asia, to make the hearts of gardeners beat faster in the small garden and in the pot. With a height of 80 cm to a maximum of 300 cm, the trees give a decorative rendezvous on tightly dimensioned garden areas, terraces and balconies.
Tips
You can experience a magical moment of a special kind on young maple trees in the garden. In the middle of summer, put your ear to the trunk and listen. With a little luck you will hear a quiet chuckle. The well-known poet Josef Guggenmos dedicated his short poem “Brother Ahorn” to this phenomenon because he thought he could hear the heartbeat of the tree. Indeed, you will hear the sap, the abundant flow of which the Cut back makes that tricky.
