Who doesn’t love Japanese maples? A stroll through a garden featuring Japanese maples offers a sensory delight at any time of the year. In spring, new growth emerges in colors ranging from lime greens ...

'Murasaki Kiyohime' is a great dwarf Japanese maple with dramatic spring color showing red-purple leaf borders with green centers. Its fall color is yellow, orange and red.(Howard Garrett / Special ...

Autumn is the perfect time to clean up flower beds, remove dead plants, and get everything ready for the months ahead.

Searching for the ultimate autumn tree? One maple variety rises above the rest, dazzling with color and thriving in a wide range of climates.

Howard Garrett loosens the excess soil with a trowel from a dwarf Japanese maple that had been too deeply packed into a container. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor It is sad but true that almost ...

Fall is just a few days away, but gardening season isn’t over yet. We’re still getting plenty of questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension ...

After years of working as a professional gardener in very different climates, from the warmth of Tuscany to the wet hills of South Wales, I’ve come to really value the plants, shrubs and trees that ...

Have a big desire for trees but a pocket-sized yard? Consider planting dwarf trees that won’t overpower your space. These small saplings stay a diminutive 10 feet tall but perform like their bigger ...

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 ...