{"id":128,"date":"2010-01-01T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/01\/coral-bark-maple-blazes-in-the-winter-landscape\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:22:00","slug":"coral-bark-maple-blazes-in-the-winter-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/01\/coral-bark-maple-blazes-in-the-winter-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Bark Maple Blazes in the Winter Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/Sz6tJ0Jo85I\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/q_2Qd6hePRQ\/s1600-h\/DSC_0058.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421961385530160018\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/Sz6tJ0Jo85I\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/q_2Qd6hePRQ\/s320\/DSC_0058.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Sango kaku Japanese maple (<em>Acer palmatum<\/em> &#8216;Sango kaku&#8217;) has light green summer foliage on a fairly upright branches. In the fall, foliage turns yellow-gold with some light tints of red, otherwise a very ordinary tree. It&#8217;s in the fall and winter seasons when this 20-25 foot ornate maple excels. The green branches and twigs turn bright coral red, aglow in the winter sun. Sango kaku makes a beautiful addition to any landscape in USDA zones 6-7.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Sango kaku prefers 1\/2 day of sun, preferably in the morning and early afternoon hours. New spring growth is thin and rank, the tree needing pruning annually to maintain a good tree form. A colder than normal winter often results in twig dieback, requiring minor cleanup pruning cuts in the spring. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;Beni kawa&#8217; is another Japanese maple with exquisite salmon colored bark beginning in late fall-winter. It appears to possess better cold and heat tolerance. Tree height is alot smaller, perhaps only 10-12 feet tall at maturity. Growth on Beni kawa is not as spindly and less prone to winter twig dieback. Beni kawa leafs out 2 weeks later than Sango kaku, avoiding spring freeze injury.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sango kaku Japanese maple (Acer palmatum &#8216;Sango kaku&#8217;) has light green summer foliage on a fairly upright branches. In the fall, foliage turns yellow-gold with some light tints of red, otherwise a very ordinary tree. It&#8217;s in the fall and winter seasons when this 20-25 foot ornate maple excels. The green branches and twigs turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}