Waterfall Japanese Maple Check-In - August 2025
In the Summer of 2023, I planted a couple of Japanese Maple trees including a high-grafted Inaba Shadire , a Seiryu upright , a small First Ghost , a Firefly Japanese Maple , a small, mis-labeled cutleaf red Japanese Maple , an Emperor 1 JM in the Kitchen Curved bed, and a Waterfall (or Virdis) low-grafted weeping Japanese Maple . Of those seven Japanese Maples planted in 2023, just two of them are still with us in the garden. The Emperor 1 in the "kitchen curved" bed is doing well (despite the Cicada damage last year) and the Waterfall weeping Japanese Maple. The other five are gone. When the Waterfall tree went in , it had a couple of primary branches that extended in each direction from the trunk. It seemed to get established in 2023 and came back in 2024. Then, it suffered a setback. In the Summer of 2024, we had a significant storm that dropped some limbs from one of our Black Walnut trees. That fallen branch (...