The year after we landscaped our backyard and created our raised garden beds we purchased a lovely Tamukeyama cutleaf Japanese maple. As you can see from the photo above it’s branches cascade downward, it’s leaves are narrow and delicate and bright burgundy – red most of the growing season. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
It will never be a very big tree. I believe at most it will be five feet tall. At this point it’s only about three feet tall and because it’s branches create a shady area below the tree I decided to grow shade loving plants like the Hosta Sum and Substance that you see growing beside it in the above photo.
The Japanese maple and the light green hosta leaves make a lovely combination don’t they?
I think this year I’m going to try to move a few of my plants around to see if I can create a few more stunning displays of plants that compliment each other beautifully.
What are your favorite plant/color combos in your garden?
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The color of your Japanese maple is just gorgeous! We had a warm, lovely springlike day here in Ohio which inspired my GTS post today.
Hey Tricia – your Japanese Maple is absolutely lovely!
I’m liking Hosta’s more and more – they’re easy to grow, easy to transplant and create such lovely colour.
Very beautiful!
What a beautiful gardening blog. I love your pictures and combinations of plants. They’re a great contrast in colour.
I know myself I love hosta’s, those are my favourite perennial plants. My favourite hosta is the patriot hosta, such a magnificent plant with beautiful colouration. The combination I like to use are hosta and stella d’oro.
I love your blog and keep up the great work and beautiful photos. Will definitely stop by again and again.
Sincerely,
Jamie Boyle
Hypertufa Gardener
The mapple and the hosta look so good together! Great combination.
wow that looks amazing. Its the wrong time of year but I love to garden outdoors here in michigan.
I am not sure what combinations we will have as we are only going to be in our first year with a backyard garden.
Currently we have a big mess of plants that were here when we bought but ones I don’t care for. The remind me of old cemetery flowers.
Last year we removed the ones we don’t care for and this year we plan to start adding.
My wife and I are going through books and magazines looking for flowers and shrubs that will please us and make our yard look great.
We are really excited as we have been married for more than 25 years and this is the first time we are able to have a yard with flowers and a vegetable garden.
I am sure I will get more inspiration as I look through your site.