‘Hana Matoi’ Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Hana Matoi’

Plant Details

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

Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub or Small Tree

Height at Maturity: 4′

Width at Maturity: 4-6′

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding, Weeping

Growth Rate: Slow

Foliage Color in Spring: Green, Pink, Red, White, Purple

Foliage Color in Summer: Green, Pink, Red, White, Purple

Foliage Color in Fall: Fiery Red

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

Water Needs: Average to Low, 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, Disease, Sun Tolerant

Description

The Hana Matoi Japanese Maple is a rare beauty with a mounding form and weeping branches covered in lacy variegated leaves that emerge shades of pink, white, red, purple and green in spring and keep their color through summer until turning vivid red in fall. Growing slowly to a mature height of about 4 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide, Hana Matoi is ideal for smaller garden spaces and containers. One of our top favorites among all the dwarf weeping Japanese Maples, Hana Matoi is small in stature but makes a big statement in the garden!

Landscape & Garden Uses

To showcase its unique beauty, the Hana Matoi Japanese Maple is best used in the landscape as a focal point specimen to draw attention to a specific area of the home or landscape. That said, Japanese Maples are often used to accentuate entryways by planting one on both sides of an entrance, or spaced widely in small clusters of three. Hana Matoi is an ideal selection for landscape beds or in containers.

Suggested Spacing: 8 feet or more apart for space between plants

Container culture can extend the useful range of Japanese Maples. They are extremely easy to grow in containers, a practice taken to its most extreme form in the art of bonsai. Click on the link below under Helpful Articles for Japanese Maple container planting instructions.

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 groundcovers that won’t interfere at all with your tree.

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Japanese Maple cultivar is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Though delicate looking, Japanese Maples are actually very tough and long-lived trees. They 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, if you a looking for one that takes lots of sun there are many sun-tolerant Japanese Maple varieties.

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 find 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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