Acer palmatum Seiryu Japanese Maple Planted - July 2023
This is the third and final Japanese Maple that I'm planting in our backyard that I bought online and had shipped from Mr. Maple. This is another Acer palmatum, but it is different - and unique. It is green, upright and has desiccated foliage. Love all of those characteristics - and it appears that it is the *only* Japanese Maple that checks all three of those boxes.
The listing from Mr. Maple tells the full story:
‘Seiryu’ is a fantastic upright green dissectum Japanese maple. This Japanese maple tree is very unusual because it has amazing dissectum leaves yet it is a vigorous upright grower. In the early spring it leafs out with a lush bright green. The fall color of 'Seiryu' encompasses shades of light to deep scarlet red.
This Japanese maple tree is a very vigorous grower and can grow up to 12-14 inches a year once it is established. The height of Seiryu can reach up to 20-22 ft over time. ‘Seiryu’ is unmatched in the acer world as a brilliant upright laceleaf. Seiryu is a great addition to any yard as a boarder or specimen tree and one that will grow relatively fast for a Japanese maple. ‘Seiryu’ makes an amazing contribution to your yard and adds a very exotic look that is uniquely unto itself. The name ‘Seiryu’ means blue-green dragons.
Below are a few photos showing this Japanese Maple that came in the one-gallon container. This is the largest of the three trees that were bought from Mr. Maple.com.
The Japanese Flowering Cherry tree is in severe decline and I'm guessing that it will NOT come back next year. As such, I'm planting this pretty close to *that tree* as I'm hoping this will take the spot when I have to take the flowering Cherry tree down (next year).
Below you can see the Seiryu Japanese Maple planted in amongst the Little Honey Oakleaf Hydrangeas, the Crested Surf Japanese Painted ferns and the Eiffel Tower Black Elderberry.
2023 marks my seventh tree-planting season and appears to be the "Year of the Japanese Maple" for trees.
This is now the ninth tree planted of the year and 86 overall. And the seventh Japanese Maple overall - two Emperor 1's, a Waterfall, an unknown laceleaf upright, a small Firefly, a First Ghost and now this upright, green laceleaf Seriyu.
We (now) have 60 of 86 trees that we've planted.
86 trees planted/7 growing seasons = 12.28 trees on average planted each season
60 trees alive/7 growing seasons = 8.57 trees on average survive each season.
Here's the full accounting:
2017 (9 planted. 4 Dead. 5 of the original annual total alive now):
1. Flowering Pear in backyard on north side.
2. Flowering Pear in front yard by garage. (LOST and replaced)
3. Japanese flowering cherry
4 and 5: 2 Lindens that I espalier'd and placed by the south fence line near our kitchen windows.
6. A Dawn Redwood from Earth Day 2017 (LOST and replaced)
7. Nat's Saucer Magnolia in our front yard
8. A Corkscrew Willow all the way in the back (LOST)
9. A Crimson King Norway Maple near the trampoline
2018 (17 planted. 6 Dead):
10. Another flowering pear from Earth Day 2018
11. Red Maple Sun Valley tree from Earth Day 2018.
12. Weeping Cedar tree - our first evergreen. (LOST)
13. The weeping flowering cherry tree that the Babe planted for Earth Day 2018.
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. These Frans Fontaine Hornbeams.
22. A replacement Chanticleer Pear tree (3" caliper) out front by our garage
23. Our second evergreen - a short Fraser Fir Christmas Tree out by the trampoline. (LOST)
24. This Canadian Hemlock that is the first of nine that our landscape plan calls for in the backyard. (LOST)
25. Our replanted/replacement Dawn Redwood. Same spot as the first.
26. This teeny-tiny Bald Cypress that I planted in the front yard, in between our driveway and our neighbor to the north.
1. Flowering Pear in backyard on north side.
3. Japanese flowering cherry
4 and 5: 2 Lindens that I espalier'd and placed by the south fence line near our kitchen windows.
7. Nat's Saucer Magnolia in our front yard
2018 (17 planted. 6 Dead):
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. These Frans Fontaine Hornbeams.
22. A replacement Chanticleer Pear tree (3" caliper) out front by our garage
25. Our replanted/replacement Dawn Redwood. Same spot as the first.
26. This teeny-tiny Bald Cypress that I planted in the front yard, in between our driveway and our neighbor to the north.
2019 (9 planted. 5 Dead):
37. A very thin Lombardy Poplar tree - columnar form - in the way back wood chip area. LOST - July 2020.
38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. These apple trees in a Belgian Fence espalier.
46. A small Northern Red Oak tree - our first Oak tree planted.
47. A 'decapitated' Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud that I planted on a whim.
48. A replacement (from the nursery) Lavender Twist Redbud planted close to the brother.
49. A tall(ish) London Plane tree that suffered some transplant and frost shock, but seemed to recover.
53. A tiny bareroot Shagbark Hickory from the Benet Academy Environmental Club planted in the backyard. LOST - May 202354. Our first Japanese Maple - a dwarf Tamukeyama Maple planted in the south backyard bed. LOST - May 202359. A dwarf Japanese White Pine - Pinus Parviflora Nana (or perhaps something else). LOST 2022.
27, 28, 29. A set of three small Canadian Hemlock Trees in our far backyard. (Two Lost)
30, 31, 32. This second set of three small Canadian Hemlocks along the north fence line. (One Lost)
33. My new Weeping White Spruce that will only grow about 4' wide placed near the fence line alongside the espalier'd Lindens.
34. A NEW Dwarf Alberta Spruce planted near the south fence line. Our first "dwarf" tree.
35. This new Hakuro Nishiki Willow (Dappled Willow) tree planted close to the flowering cherry on the southside. LOST - October 2020.
33. My new Weeping White Spruce that will only grow about 4' wide placed near the fence line alongside the espalier'd Lindens.
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2020 (17 planted and 6 Dead):
46. A small Northern Red Oak tree - our first Oak tree planted.
47. A 'decapitated' Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud that I planted on a whim.
49. A tall(ish) London Plane tree that suffered some transplant and frost shock, but seemed to recover.
50. Our second contorted tree - this one inspired by Disneyland Paris: a Harry Lauder's Walking Stick tree.
51. Our third contorted tree - but one that checks A LOT of boxes. Deciduous conifer. Weeping. Contorted. Japanese. Planted behind the front Maple - the Horstmann's Recursive Weeping Contorted Larch. LOST - Aug 2020.
52. Via the Morton Arboretum Plant Sale - a columnar tree from Japan - the Red Fox Katsura Tree that I planted as an understory tree to the dying Chanticleer Pear Tree next to our driveway.
2021 (16 planted and 13 alive):
55. A large Weeping Nootka Falsecypress from Wannemaker's planted in the new bed on the northside.
56. A long-sought-after Emperor I Japanese Maple - our second Japanese Maple - that is now planted on the border near our new-to-be-created fire pit area in the backyard.
57. A Harvest Gold Hargozam Crabapple tree in our Belgian Fence (replacement)
64. A second, tiny Ginko tree - this was a replacement for #62 - planted 'ib2dw'.
65. A small - and ALL Green - Pagoda Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) planted in front of the back Yews.
66. 67. 68. A trio of London Planetree 'Bloodgood' trees that are planted along the fence that I'm going to attempt to pleach.
2022 (9 planted and 7 alive):
69. 70. 71. 72. 75. A small Saratoga Ginko tree planted in our front yard by the front walk.
76. A London Planetree Exclamation planted in our parkway. A bandit tree of sorts.
77. The largest tree - 3.5" caliper - we've ever planted. A Triumph Elm - Ulmus 'Morton Glossy' as a replacement for the large Norway Maple tree in our front yard.
2023 (9 planted and 9 alive):
78. Small, Columnar Scotch Pine from Home Depot in early Spring 2023. 79 and 80. Dwarf "witches broom" Ginkgo trees - Spring Grove - planted on either side of our back stoop.
81. A (very small) Acer palmatum Emperor 1 Japanese Maple planted in the kitchen window bed by the row of Astilbes.
82. A low-grafted Waterfall Japanese Maple tree - Acer palmatum dissectum 'Waterfall'.
83. A small, but upright red lace-leaf Japanese Maple - Unknown variety planted amongst the hostas on the north side understory bed.
84. The first of three trees from Mr. Maple - a one-gallon Acer palmatum 'Firefly' that is planted in the Understory garden in back.
85. The second of three trees from Mr. Maple - another one-gallon Japanese Maple: Acer palmatum 'First Ghost' back by the firepit.
86. The third tree from Mr. Maple - an upright green dissectum Japanese maple that I planted near the failing (in decline) Japanese Cherry Tree.
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