Our Stunning Summer Garden Tour of Japanese Maples
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Welcome back to Building Modern! Last time, we took you on a mesmerizing Garden Tour in the vibrant colors of spring. Now, as summer takes hold, a whole new enchantment has unfolded within our garden oasis. Join us once again as we embark on a captivating Summer Garden Tour, where we'll showcase the stunning metamorphosis that has taken place since our last visit.
As the temperatures rise, the lush foliage has flourished, and the garden has transformed into a breathtaking summer spectacle. In this one-and-a-half-hour journey, we'll guide you through the mesmerizing changes that have occurred. Witness the vibrant transition from the delicate hues of spring to the bolder, luscious greens of summer. Prepare to be surprised as some plants reveal surprising differences in their summer foliage, evoking a sense of awe and wonder.
Our garden continues to boast a captivating array of Japanese maples, conifers, hostas, ginkgo trees, and more. We've cultivated these remarkable specimens with care and dedication, creating an oasis that blends modern sophistication with natural beauty.
Join us as we share insightful details about each plant's growth habits, growth rates, and preferred sun exposure. Experience the satisfaction of our DIY hardscaping and landscaping, where every detail has been thoughtfully crafted to create a harmonious and inviting atmosphere.
We invite you to immerse yourself in this captivating summer experience, leaving a comment to let us know which plants enchanted you the most. Remember to like and subscribe to our channel for more remarkable garden tours and DIY projects. Share this video with those who appreciate the beauty of nature and the artistry of modern gardening.
Thank you for joining us on this extraordinary summer garden tour. Let's embark on this journey together and uncover the wonders that await!
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Oh No... your Butterflies are really struggling :(. Maybe also too much sun like for my AP Taylor in spring. Thanks for your big garden tour and greetings from Hamburg, also Germany. ;)
Thanks! Yes, they look this way every time we get into our summer heat. They’re in about as little sun as we can place them right now - it’s also in combination with our high humidity. However, every spring they seem to bounce back. 🙂
Germany! Ha, it sounds like we might just have to come do garden tours in Germany sometime 😁
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Great video. I like how you showed the spring images next to the current condition to show contrast, growth, color, etc
Thanks - we’re glad you liked it 😁
I found this really helpful too! Comparing how they look in each season is the best. I love your Pixie's and Gieshsa's I hope I can find one.
Thanks! We love those two - that said, if you’re looking at Geisha Gone Wild, you may want to consider Shirazz if you can find it. They look the exact same, but some people prefer the Shirazz Japanese maple and say it’s more hardy.
Great to see y’all again, been away for awhile
Hello Doug! Welcome back!
Such a nice garden!!! I now have like 5 new plants on my list :D keep it going and keep us updated!
Greetings from Germany :D
Guten Morgen! Thanks so much for watching! We were in Germany not long ago - such a beautiful country! Let us know if you have any questions - I’d say for the most part, what does well here will do well there. Happy gardening!
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@@buildingmodern Im already one of the 1000 :D My only question is how often do you water your your japanese maples? i have mine in pots and i have a hard time figuring out how often i have to water them xD
Thank you!! For ours in the ground, we have now stopped watering entirely. If we have a drought or long period of no rain, we’ll water every 3-4 days.
For Japanese maples in pots, it’s usually recommended to water every 2-3 days unless in unusual heat. If it’s unusually hot, above 92f or so, watering every day to every other day is fine. It’s easier to overwater than underwater, so be careful not to overdo it (the leaves will start wilting if they’re being overwatered). Hope this helps!
The fukuzumi looks awesome :)
Thank you!!
I absolutely love your garden tours! Yes, please do a fall tour! It's so cool to see how they change from Spring-Summer-Fall. I'm in 8a also, but in North Texas, so we're hitting 105-110 regularly in July! My Seiryu, Tamukeyama, Shishigashira, Germaine's Gyration, Katsura, Kiyohime Yatsabusa, and Sango Kaku's are doing the best in this beat down heat, but the rest are hiding in the shade in pots until I commit to planting them somewhere. Texas is a challenge, so finding afternoon shade is a luxury/necessity. I think its a bad summer for most of us, and hoping El Nino brings us more rain soon.
I'm learning so much from your different plant varieties. I need to branch out and get a few conifers. Definitely getting a Pixie, Jordan, Skeeters Broom, Scolopendrifolium - Green Bamboo (if I can find one here), and a Schirrmann's Nordlicht.
It's hard to find nursery's locally that have much of a variety, so I get most of mine online (Mr. Maple), so of course they only ship small 1-3 gals.
Keep on doing what you're doing :)
Thanks for sharing! You have such a great variety!! Once they’re in the ground, you’ll find they can tolerate a bit more heat. Oh, also, you can line your pots with styrofoam to help insulate the roots (I haven’t tried it - just heard that this helps).
You’ll love having all those varieties!! Ha, sometime we feel like we should just make a trip to Oregon and buy out the nurseries there. 😂
We’re definitely happy to share and glad you’re enjoying the videos. We’re absolutely planning on a Fall video. Oh! And our air layers should be ready to check soon from earlier in the year - so, that video shouldn’t be too far away as well. 🙂
Thanks for watching!
@@buildingmodern Funny you mention Oregon...one of the nurseries in Fort Worth actually told me to please come back in the fall, they'll be getting a big shipment from Oregon then. I'm still looking for the 'bone yards' for good deals, but I'm afraid that doesn't exist here 😆
You guys have so many great specimens. Can't wait for your fall video!
Thank you for watching!! We'll definitely be recording it - with the heat this summer, keep expectations to a simmer. Our area isn't really known for our Fall colors - but, we'll definitely share whatever we do get! A couple of years ago, it was outstanding - here's hoping we see that again! 😄
Hi guys! Hope you’re doing well. I just love my Summer Gold JM. I also have it planted in full sun here in zone 7 NY & it’s still a bright chartreuse, color. Would love to see an updated summer 2024 tour! ❤
Thanks! Glad it’s going strong! We have a new tour coming out this Saturday!! Including the new location of one of our summer golds and Jordan air layer and how they’re doing this year 🥳🥳🥳
Glad to see at least some trees hold onto red :D I bought skeeters's broom over Shaina/Pixie, cause small/more upward (and slightly more sun tolerant). In the pots of the shop i bought it (though very big ones, already 2 meter big, multi stem), they are long time red, then become 'brown' red, then green/brown with slight hints of dark red on new leaves. The understory leaves obviously are green like you proved many times in video. I hope the colours of my maples actually hold up during summer.
Eying Komachi Hime (little girl) and Acer Shirasawanum Moonrise now.
Thanks! Be sure to put moonrise in plenty of shade if you’re in a warmer climate. We are looking forward to when our Japanese maples get bigger and we can start with understory plants below them 😍
Fantastic explanation. 🙌🏻
Thanks! Thank you for watching!
I'm in southern CT and blue hostas also lose the blue color when it gets hot in the summer. I'm in zone 7a.
Ha, yep! Happens every year! It’s why it’s so hard to get blue-colors in the south. Some people have hydrangeas just to get the blue. 😅
Thank you! I've been looking for a video that displays the colors of Japanese maples during the summer in zone 8, because Japanese maples that are green during the summer are just meh. Now I know which colorful ones to add to my collection. Also, nice to know how their color varies in the shade and in the sun. Your Orange Flame is just as boring as my 10-foot Orange Flame. So, your Orange Flame isn't a seedling, it’s the actual cultivar. :P Finally, a Japanese maple video that uses a real camera, and not a phone camera with a dirty shaky lens.
Thanks! We had the same dilemma - everyone always shows Spring & Fall, never the Summer (the longest season here!). We're glad you found it useful. 🙂
Ha, that's great to know about the Orange Flame! So, it's correct after all! 😂
And thanks! Let us know if there's any other videos you'd like to see. We've had a few thoughts of what else we can do, but are definitely open to input. Hopefully, some of the Japanese Maple people like seeing our shed construction as well - it's really starting to get the Japanese feel!
Hey, how much sun is the dancing peacock getting? Love your place....Just wonder how often do you water? I have about 70 JPs and one pretty good well, but if we have a drought I'm a bit concerned, I'm in 7a...your hotter.
Hello! Our smaller one gets maybe two hours of sun while our larger one gets 6-8 hours of direct sun (the rest is overhead filtered shade).
We don’t water at all anymore, unless we’re in a drought or it’s really hot (above 95 in the afternoon). In those situations, we’ll maybe water once every 2-3 days (some people water daily, that’s not in our budget with the amount of trees we have). If they’re well established, they should be mostly fine (leaves will crinkle though) as long as they have some water at least every two weeks (though, of course, they’d prefer it more often).
If you’re in a deep drought, and can water, once to twice a week should be enough to tide them over, assuming it’s also hot. If it isn’t hot, once every 1.5 weeks or so.
Warning: this is just what’s worked for us. Your situation may be different, err with caution. 🙂
@@buildingmodern Many thanks, I haven't had much trouble with drought in the Ozark Mts. I never had my well run dry, it's a good one but I'm beginning to wonder...I need to go on worry fast. Do you ever have issues with Japanese beetles? I had an issue two years ago and I purchased a lot of milky spore and the following year hardly any...Once I sprayed the leaves with dawn and overdid it,,,don't like that method but I have heard very good reports with milky spore, I did about 3 acres with it...good luck you have a wonderful environment to live in....and many thanks for your videos it's helpful my friends.
Which Japanese Maple's do you think have the best fall color? I was wondering if you also have Osakazuki.
You can watch our Fall tour in previous years to see the fall color. A lot of people like acontifolium (dancing peacock) for its multi-color fall coloring. Meigetsu has similar coloring as well. Sango Kaku can go all yellow, which is pretty outstanding. Seiryu can turn ~bright~ red all over the tree which is very impressive. They each have their own fall traits. Though, I should be sure to point out, our climate zone isn’t known for the best fall colors in general. They’re no where near what you’ll get in zones 5-6.
And nope - no Osakazuki. We usually get our Japanese maples on sale or clearance, and haven’t come across one of those on sale/clearance yet. 🙂
Where are you buying your JM? I have bought from Millstone Japanese Maple Nursery , Dadeville, AL. Maple Ridge Nursery Gay, GA and also Mixed Border Nursery Jackson , GA and Mr. Maple in NC.
If we can, we normally buy directly from smaller growers. We knew a ‘back yard’ grower who we purchased many of our Japanese maples from.
We also have a local nursery that used to have great prices of $35 on 2g 4-6’ tall Japanese maples - the varieties were typically different each season. Though, they’ve stopped with this pricing now.
We’ll also try to stop by smaller growers we know when traveling. It’s always fun to pick up a tree somewhere and have an added story to go along with it. (Our price limit is usually $35 or less for a 2g size, fyi. We ~might~ go up to $50 for a really nice looking larger one that isn’t root bound. And, we refuse to buy anything you could call a twig - the caliper needs to be at least 1/2”)
It sounds like you’ve tried a lot of the main ones. I’ve also heard great things about Whitman Farms - they tend to ship fairly large trees vs price. However, we don’t really mail order for our trees, preferring to buy in person.
I should note - a *lot* of our Japanese maples also came from clearance bins at nurseries. They often were missing leaders, were nearly dead, etc. We got these in bargain bins knowing they might die. Luckily, for Japanese maples, this usually works out in our favor. I think we’ve maybe only lost one or two. And the prices are usually a steal ($10, $5, $50 for our largest Mikawa, etc). … I don’t recommend this for conifers, as the opposite is true for them - if they look like they’re dying, they’re likely already dead and just don’t know it yet. 😅
@@buildingmodern thanks for the response and info.