Early Spring Plants

Buy Crazy Lion Japanese Maple online. Crazy Lion Japanese Maple, also known as 'Kurui Jishi' is a slow, upright deciduous dwarf tree. In spring, it produces leaves that emerge deep green with tightly-rolled edges and slightly-hooked tips. It sports a beautiful fall color in bright yellow. Kurui Jishi means "crazy/confused lion" in Japanese.

Buy Manyo No Sato Japanese Maple online. A small deciduous tree with irregular green and purple variegated leaves. A wonderful attraction in spring and summer. Fall color is purple and orange. Prefers sun/partial shade in well-drained soil.

Buy Pink Panther Japanese Maple online. Elevate your garden with the dazzling Pink Panther Japanese Maple, a vibrant new cultivar introduced by Angel Mendoza at Cristy Nursery. This striking tree captivates in early spring with an explosion of bright pink foliage, creating a breathtaking focal point that's sure to spark conversation. Unlike typical spring-interest trees, its larger, amoenum-like leaves lend a bold, distinctive texture, making it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking a unique and eye-catching addition to their landscape.

As the seasons shift, Pink Panther Japanese Maple continues to impress with its dynamic color transitions. In summer, the vivid pink softens to a crisp olive green, accented by coral pink new growth that adds a fresh, lively flush to your garden. When autumn arrives, the tree transforms into a fiery spectacle of orange to red hues, ensuring year-round visual drama. This versatile maple thrives as a standalone specimen, offering amazing design possibilities for both novice and seasoned gardeners.

Pink Panther Japanese Maple is more than just a tree—it's a statement piece that brings bold color and charm to any outdoor space. Its rare combination of vibrant spring pinks, lush summer greens, and radiant fall tones makes it a must-have for plant collectors and enthusiasts. Don't miss the chance to own this conversation-starting cultivar that lives up to its playful name.

Buy Ryusen Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Ryusen', also sold as 'Ryusei' ('Ryu Sei') is an unusual Japanese maple with pendulous branching and palmate leaves. A true palmatum weeper. Blazing orange and red fall color. A vigorous growing tree.

Buy Coral Bark Japanese Maple online. Also known as 'Sango Kaku', it is best known for its striking red bark in the fall and winter. The leaves unfold with red and pinkish tinges that become lime green and yellow with bright red edges well into spring. During the summer's heat the foliage becomes a medium green. When the yellow and gold fall colors develop, the cooler temperatures also start to change the bark to red that intensifies as the weather gets colder.

Buy Sherwood Flame Japanese Maple online. This maple has fiery red, deeply lobed leaves that maintain their brilliant hue from their emergence in spring to their fall color display. Heavy clusters of red samaras add to the ornamental appeal of this tree. Great choice for an accent plant.

Buy Lion's Head Japanese Maple online. Lion's Head Japanese Maple is unique and is known as one of the more unique Japanese maple cultivars. Burgundy new wood emerges a bright crinkled and thickly textured green leaves in the spring held in clumps. Leaves turn a deep green for the summer its fall display is a good crimson that holds for weeks. It is compact and slow growing plant!

Buy Tobiosho Japanese Maple online. This tree has a fantastic display of fall color, making it an incredible addition to the landscape. Fall color transitions from a vibrant gold, to an abundance of orange, and ends with a scarlet flush. 'Tobiosho' has attractive green foliage in the spring and summer and a broad upright habit.

Buy Ueno Homare Japanese Maple online. This rare seleection has small, deeply dissected leaves that emerge bright yellow-green edged with a hint of red on the margins in spring. Leaves mature to green in summer and turn golden yellow to red in fall in a fantastic sunset of color. The name means "Mount Euno" in Japanese.

Buy Winter's Red Japanese Maple online. Winter's Red Japanese Maple is a beautiful red-leafed maple with deeply cut foliage that is often confused with Winter Red Coral Bark Japanese Maple. In fall, it shows off hues of reds, resembling a fire! It's a beautiful A. palmatum that grows upright, almost columnar. It's habit makes it a great choice for limited spaces in the shady landscape.

Buy Hogyoku Japanese Maple online. 'Hogyoku' is a compact and small-growing tree with leaves that are deep green with a lot of texture. Fall color on this beauty is dark orange.

Buy Saoshika Japanese Maple online. Saoshika Japanese Maple, can sometimes be known as Sao Shika Japanese Maple. It is a rare A. palmatum that features bright green foliage in spring. In summer, the leaves will start to turn a darker shade of green, and then in fall they will showoff stunning shades of yellows, oranges, and reds. It's growth habit is much more bushy in form.

Buy Beni Maiko Japanese Maple online. 'Beni Maiko' is characterized by its fierce red leaf color in spring. The name means "red-haired dancing girl" in Japanese, and it truly lives up to its name in the landscape. In summer, the red leaves will start to show darker green to pink in color. Fall color is an even brighter red, which makes it a highlight in any shady landscape!

Buy Deshojo Japanese Maple online. An exceptional small tree with classic, well branched form and highly dramatic foliage. Spring leaves are salmon-red, turning green in mid-summer, then brilliant orange-scarlet in autumn. New growth continues to emerge red, contrasting beautifully with the mature foliage. Diminutive size fits well in small scale gardens or containers. Deciduous.

Buy Baby Lace Dwarf Weeping Japanese Maple online. This dwarf A. palmatum dissectum has extremely dissected leaves, almost looking like fine hairs. The leaves emerge in spring reddish-orange and fade to green in the summer months with traces of burgundy and purple. In fall, it's a showoff, as it sports colors of orange, yellow and red. It's extremely slow growing and stunningly beautiful, and is a must-have tree for collectors, or those looking for the perfect specimen plant for well protected, shady areas in the landscape.

Buy Ever Red Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Ever Red' is an outstanding laceleaf Japanese maple. The newly opening leaves are among the largest of any dissectum and produce fine silvery hairs giving an appearance like none other. It holds its rich purplish-red color well in to the summer and the fall color is a nice brilliant red. It is also known as 'Red Select' and 'Holland Select'.

Buy Germaine's Gyration Contorted Weeping Japanese Maple online. This highly unique and rare specimen tree is a must-have for tree collectors. 'Germaine's Gyration' features contorted and twisted branching in a weeping growth habit. Dissected leaves appear in spring, and in fall change to shades of red and orange.

Buy Green Lace Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Green Lace' is strongly cascading and the long drooping branches form a dome-shaped tree. This green-leafed selection has bright foliage and holds color well through summer. Fall foliage is yellow-gold with a touch of crimson.

Buy Hana Matoi Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Hana Matoi' is a deciduous tree with a small, mounding form. Finely dissected green leaves are streaked with white, pink and red that makes for a fantastic color show. Prefers sun/partial shade in well-drained soil.

Buy Lion Heart Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Lion Heart' is a semi-upright growing red laceleaf tree. growers are not very common in the red lace leaf family, but this variety is a step closer. Similar in color to 'Crimson Queen', the burgundy leaves fade to reddish green in hot summer temperatures.

Buy Prince Charming Weeping Japanese Maple online. Prince Charming Weeping Japanese Maple was discovered as a reverted sport of Hana Matoi Weeping Japanese Maple. The finely dissected leaves that are produced in spring are reddish pink and green that darken to green in the summer. In fall, these delicate leaves will turn brilliant red. It's smaller in stature than other A. palmatum dissectum cultivars, which make it a great choice for areas of limited space in your shady landscape!

Buy Red Prince Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Red Prince' is a selected offshoot from 'Hana Matoi' resulting only slight pink coloring but mostly crimson foliage. Finely dissected leaves adore this dwarf selection. Prefers sun/partial shade in well-drained soil.

Buy Waterfall Weeping Japanese Maple online. 'Waterfall' is a beautiful weeping laceleaf Japanese maple, perfect to use as a specimen plant in the landscape. Bright green summer foliage holds well through out the summer months, turning brilliant golden tones, with hints of crimson in the fall. The weeping branch structure gives this plant a waterfall-like appearance as the foliage cascades down towards the grown. A faster growing green laceleaf variety.

Buy Chirimen Nishiki Japanese Maple online. Chirimen Nishiki Japanese Maple is a great A. palmatum linearilobum that features long, deeply cut, willow-like leaves. These elegant leaves emerge burgundy-maroon in spring, turning slightly dark green to red in summer, and fall color is going to be outstanding in shades of yellows to reds. This is shorter growing tree, and it is touted to be able to handle more heat than other cultivars of A. palmatum. Extremely rare and hard-to-find, it is a must-have for collectors!

Buy Hubb's Red Willow Japanese Maple online. 'Hubb's Red Willow' is an upright, small deciduous tree. Marvelous purple-red leaves have very long and narrow lobes. Overall appearance is that of a dainty bamboo. Fall color in fiery shades of orange and red. Prefers sun/partial shade in well-drained soil.

Buy Beni Kawa Coral Bark Japanese Maple online. A coral bark Japanese maple that is vase-shaped, smaller growing that 'Sango Kaku'. Leaves are small and green with orange in spring. Bark is bright red in cold sunny weather. Long lasting yellow with red or burnt orange colors in the fall. Beautiful in all four seasons. Likes consistent moisture and good drainage.

Buy Burgundy Lace Japanese Maple online. 'Burgundy Lace' has very striking red-purple leaves that emerge in spring and turn darker in summer. In the fall the leaves are orange to yellow colored.

Buy Elena's Coral Dawn Japanese Maple online. Discovered and introduced out of Oregon, this A. palmatum matsumurae cultivar is an extremely rare and unique specimen tree. Its leaves are deeply cut and irregularly serrated, giving the appearance of long and graceful feathers. They begin coral pink to orange with light pink to burgundy veining. As they mature, they turn more of an amber to yellowish-green color in the summer. All these color changes will have you thinking of a beautiful sunrise!

Buy Iijima Sunago Japanese Maple online. 'Iijima Sunago' is a small growing deciduous tree with marvelous large chocolate-purple leaves which can have a dusting of yellow-brown spots. Fall color is vibrant gold and orange. Its name means "gold dust of Iijima" in Japanese. Prefers sun/partial shade in well-drained soil.

Buy Phantom Flame Japanese Maple online. Phantom Flame Japanese Maple produces leaves in spring that look very much like their namesake...they are feathery and deeply cut, with a silvery-green to medium green variegation darkening to deep red to crimson margins and tips. Leaves can turn green in summer with heat, and in fall they show off hues in oranges to reds. Highly unique!

Buy Amber Ghost Japanese Maple online. 'Amber Ghost' is a medium-sized tree with variegated leaves. The leaves will vary from greenish lavender to dark purple with red tones. Fall colors may vary from gold orange to reddish orange.

Buy Nebula Japanese Maple online. Nebula Japanese Maple is a masterpiece of ever-changing beauty, and you'll want to enhance your garden with this stunning, upright tree with beautiful reticulated leaves that display a pronounced network of spider web-like veins.

In spring, the leaves emerge in shades of glowing peachy pink with green veins. By summer, they transition to a soft green with prominent dark green veins. As cool temperatures arrive in fall, the foliage transforms into brilliant red and burgundy shades.

For the best foliage colors throughout the seasons, giving Nebula Japanese Maple some filtered sun or shade during the hot afternoon hours. Its smaller stature makes it a gorgeous focal point specimen in small landscape spaces or as an accent tree in home foundation plantings, where its wonderful form, texture, and ever-changing color will surely captivate.

Elevate your garden with the mesmerizing beauty of Nebula Japanese Maple and enjoy its dynamic presence through every season.