Japanese Leaf Maple - Shade tolerant Variety

grantmaz123 · Jun 5, 2015

Am I glad I found this web site! I desperately want to plant a split leaf maple ( or similar) in my front yard. The area, however, is it's in a shady area - almost 90% of the time. Do you sell any species that would thrive in that kind of environment. The color doesn't matter and it does not have to grow very large - 5' would be plenty. Thanks!

Raintree · Jun 5, 2015

I have planted the Waterfall Jap maple in the shade & it has done well, not sure on your 90% shade that's almost a cave.

Oldman47 · Jun 5, 2015

grantmaz123 said:
Am I glad I found this web site! I desperately want to plant a split leaf maple ( or similar) in my front yard. The area, however, is it's in a shady area - almost 90% of the time. Do you sell any species that would thrive in that kind of environment. The color doesn't matter and it does not have to grow very large - 5' would be plenty. Thanks!

Welcome to the forum. You may have misunderstood but this is not a sales site at all. I see that Raintree has answered your question well though. I have seen japanese maples planted in rather dark corners do quite well. My local hospital has one planted in a corner with a wall south of it and another wall west of it and it is thriving.

grantmaz123 · Jun 7, 2015

Oldman47 said:
Welcome to the forum. You may have misunderstood but this is not a sales site at all. I see that Raintree has answered your question well though. I have seen japanese maples planted in rather dark corners do quite well. My local hospital has one planted in a corner with a wall south of it and another wall west of it and it is thriving.

Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding regarding the purpose of your site. I was told that the acer palmatum dissectum tamukeyana is shade tolerant. It is known as a weeping Japanese Maple. Would that be the same as a waterfall Japanese Maple?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.