Garden Design Aroung A Vine Maple

In fall it splashes color in a woodsy understory and looks brilliant planted with dark conifers.

Garden design aroung a vine maple. Vine maple is one of our best native trees for the urban garden. Acer circinatum vine maple is most commonly grown as a spreading bushy large shrub but it will occasionally form a small to medium sized tree. Upright in sunny locations it takes a delicate horizontal habit in the shade.

Low branched multi stemmed in habit it usually develops multi trunks with bright reddish green bark. Other common names vine maple. Use several to make an arching shady bower.

Planted in the sun it grows into a small airy tree. True to its name this plant tends to vine when planted in a shady spot its multiple stems sprawling beautifully through companions. As a transitional shrub between the ornamental garden and the more natural landscape beyond in a native plant design in an ornamental shade garden where it will partner beautifully with ferns hosta and bleeding heart dicentra spectabiis as a specimen tree in the garden.

Vine maple will grow well in full sun to deep shade but the best autumn color is with at least half a day of sun. Genus acer can be deciduous trees or large shrubs with paired often palmately lobed leaves and small flowers followed by characteristic winged fruits. How to use it.

It is remarkably adaptable to soil types growing well in sandy to clay soils and well drained to moist locations. Many have fine autumn colour and some have ornamental stems.