Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 15 JuneA Japanese maple on 16 June, grown as a single slender whip with a loose flat-topped head, its leaves cut almost to the base into five to seven narrow serrated lobes and burgundy over blood-red at the youngest, lit indoors at night by one bare bulb.Week of 13 JulyA Japanese maple on 16 July, each leaf split to the base into seven narrow finely toothed lobes in dull maroon, the canopy thin and gappy with the upper leaves curled and bleached tan, in strong low side light across the gravel.Week of 17 AugustA young Japanese maple on 20 August, its leaves cut into seven narrow double-toothed lobes and held translucent rose-crimson on red stalks, a dozen bare petioles standing among them, against weathered clapboard siding in flat shade.
