Early winter sunrise highlight the beauty of the skeleton of trees on a frosty morning in Trotts Garden, Ashburton.ALAN TROTT / NZ-Gardener Too many gardeners focus on spring and summer plantings ...

The Japanese maple Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku' (also known as 'Senkaki') is outstanding in winter with its bright coral-red bark. I have a dwarf cultivar called 'Beni-kawa' which would be excellent ...

In this episode, I show how to carve ladle spoons from walnut and maple. The spoons are designed to be symmetrical and have the same profile when held face to face, resembling halves of each other.

They must have shade in afternoon. Neil Sperry Special to the Star-Telegram Coral Bark Japanese maple has green foliage (with handsome fall shades), but is most noted for its coral-red stems.

like “Sango Kaku,” also known as coral bark maple, feature rich coral red, salmon, and pink hued branches on a small-sized tree, perfect for smaller gardens and large volume containers.

Some of the maples have colourful bark. Coral bark maple is an example. Brightly coloured stems of yellow-twig and red-twig dogwoods are winter garden points of interest and striking additions to ...

Can be planted 5-7m apart for an avenue effect. Has distinctive coral-pink bark and golden yellow foliage in autumn. Small tree to 7m tall, 5m wide. Suits a container – repot every two years and ...

"So as climate continues to warm, it is affecting us. It's going to affect maple trees, sugar maple trees, and this whole production," said Woodlands Campus Director Kelley Stewart, Keystone College.

While walking in the woods (easy to do this February with virtually no snow), I observed several maple trees, all young ones, that had bark stripped. A couple times, I saw gray squirrels in these ...

The winter of 2023-24 has been not quite the warmest on record for the Northland, but nearly so. While December and February were contenders for the No. 1 spot, January provided us with a few ...

Garden versions of the paperbark maple are smaller than those in the wild but they have the same decorative bark. Paul Meyer Paul Meyer, Morris Arboretum Q. I have a beautiful paper bark maple ...