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I happened upon a pair of plain, sorry that word does not apply to any Japanese Maple. I'll start again.

I came upon a pair of green Japanese Maples either side of a gateway in a walled garden in Castle Kennedy just outside of Stranraer in South West Scotland. I was actually there to see some very fine Paper Bark Maples but more of that later.

As the majority of Maple cultivars are grafted plants, simply because it is the only way to guarantee the consistency of the type, there will always be the potential for the understock of the graft to sprout forth and try and take over.

This time of year is usually the time that you will encounter Maple leaf burn. This always occurs first at the very tips of the leaves and these take on parchment colour.
This phenomenon is indicative of a water transport or water storage problem which can be rectified in many ways.