Acer griseum Size:1 Quart humus-rich

humus-rich

mildly fragrant in the evening and a steady draw for hummingbirds

vivid enough to be glad you didn't

and let the bulb dry down as the foliage yellows in fall

Acer griseum Size:1 Quart humus-richFew trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple. Ernest Henry Wilson gathered seed of Acer griseum in central China in 1901 for the Veitch nursery, and for most of the twentieth century nearly every paperbark grown in Western gardens traced back to that introduction and one that followed. The maple sets abundant winged samaras, yet most are empty, a parthenocarpic habit that leaves only a small fraction viable. That quirk is why