HomeblogCoral-bark maple Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ earns its keep with gorgeous autumn foliage and stunning winter bark. One of my priorities with the new garden is to make it a truly glorious sight in autumn. As you know, I love autumn more than any other season. And I also don’t like grey winter days and dark winter afternoons, so I really must make autumn and winter as beautiful as possible in my garden so that I cannot help but be cheered. One of the new plants that’s going a long way to realising this is my coral-bark maple, Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’, which is a beautiful little tree. It arrived this week from Gardening Express, and will form part of a special autumn border along one side of the plot. It has gorgeous foliage: Just look at all those colours in one leaf! Those leaves fade to gold, and then fall. But even then, the coral-bark maple earns its keep by living up to its name. Its bark isn’t that different to a dogwood, and therefore this is a winter plant as well as an autumn one. I can’t wait to reveal the whole autumn border to you – little details like this make the end of summer quite easy to bear. Share this:ShareClick to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on StumbleUpon (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Comment Object in the image Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.
