‘Edgewood’s Golden’ Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Edgewood’s Golden’

Other Names: Edgewood Japanese Maple, Edgewood Orange Japanese Maple

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9a Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub or Tree

Height at Maturity: 6′

Width at Maturity: 8-10′
Spacing: Use as specimen

Growth Habit / Form: Cascading, Mounding, Weeping, Broad

Growth Rate: Slow

Foliage Color in Spring: Mauve-Red

Foliage Color in Summer: Light Bronze-Green

Foliage Color in Fall: Bright Golden Orange

Light Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun, Shade or Mostly Shade

Water Needs: Average, moderately drought tolerant when established

Soil Type: Sandy, Loam & Clay (Condition heavy clay soils when planting)

Drainage: Well drained soil is a must!

Soil pH: 5.0 – 7.0 is ideal

Maintenance: Low

Resistances: Deer, Heat Tolerant, Insect Resistant, Sun Tolerant, Disease

Description

An outstanding selection with very unique coloration, ‘Edgewood’s Golden’ is a mounding laceleaf Japanese Maple featuring 3 color changes throughout the seasons. In spring, the deeply cut and very lacy leaves emerge a mauve red with lime green veins that sometimes holds color through summer but more often turns to a soft bronzish green with any new growth as red. With the arrival of cooler temperatures in fall the leaves begin to turn a golden color and finally to bright orange. Edgewood Golden reaches maybe 6 feet tall by 8 to 10 feet wide in 20 years.

Landscape & Garden Uses

To showcase its magnificence and beauty, a Japanese Maple is best used in landscape design as a focal point specimen to draw attention to a specific area of the home or landscape. That said, you can plant them in groupings of three or plant one on both sides of an entryway. An ideal selection for landscape beds or in containers.

Note: One Japanese Maple can make a landscape…that is, if you don’t overcrowd it with other trees and plants. Therefore, when choosing companions to plant under or around your Japanese Maple, make sure to select low-growing shrubs or groundcover plants that won’t interfere at all with your tree.

Growing Preferences

Though delicate looking, Japanese Maples are actually very tough and long-lived trees that are very easy to grow. Container culture can extend their useful range. They are extremely easy to grow in containers, a practice taken to its most extreme form in the art of bonsai.

In their natural habitat, Japanese Maples are understory trees, growing in dappled forest sunlight at the edges of woodlands. Ideally they prefer to be grown in similar conditions. That said, there are many sun-tolerant Japanese Maple varieties, of which Edgewood is one.

Most any average garden soil will grow Japanese Maples. They prefer a moist but well-drained soil rich in organic matter. As with so many other ornamental plants and trees, constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. So make sure to plant your Japanese Maple in a well-drained site.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Japanese Maple trees.

How To Plant A Japanese Maple Tree In The Ground

How to Plant A Japanese Maple Tree In A Pot

How To Fertilize And Water A Japanese Maple Tree

How To Prune A Japanese Maple

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My tree arrived in perfect shape in the sturdy box. I planted it following your instructions so hopefully will see the colors and growth starting in the spring.————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

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You guys are definitely my go to place for Japanese maples, or anything else frankly. I purchased this and it arrived beautifully packaged and shaped. I’d ordered some other maples from another source and got pretty inferior trees. I’ve purchased a LOT from Wilson’s this spring and are thrilled to find a great source like you guys! Locally I can’t find anything close to your variety. I can’t stand the generically landscaped stuff around here where everybody’s yard has the same dang stuff. Even the landscapers imitate each other!——————————————-WOW! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG