Clusters of very fragrant, pale pink flowers through spring on a nicely rounded shrub that has good fall color.

Fragrant, early spring-blooming shrub with blush-white forsythia-like flowers.

In early spring pink flushed white flowers emerge along the stems of this Forsythia lookalike. Blooming when most other shrubs are still sleeping off the winter making it an important pollen source for early foraging insects.

Beautiful, exfoliating cinnamon bark and good fall color. Needs a protected site in Vermont. Adaptable to different soils and clay tolerant.

Vigorous hybrid with a rounded canopy and striking cinnamon-colored flaking bark. Trifoliate leaves turn beautiful shades of red and orange in the fall.

Unique monkshood-like leaves with beautiful seed pods in spring and wonderful reddish purple foliage in fall.  Forms a small, spreading tree.

Very finely cut green leaves. A graceful and weeping habit forms a mound with brilliant fall foliage.

Unique monkshood-like leaves on a low wide-spreading tree.

Large orbicular leaves turn fantastic flaming shades in the fall.  Forms a broad-crowned upright tree.

A cultivar with lobed, grape-leaf -like foliage that emerges bronze, matures to green and turns back to beautiful sunset shades in the fall.

Pink to amber spring foliage is highlighted by darker veins.  The leaves mature to deeper amber then turn fiery red and gold in the fall.  A Buchholz Nursery intro.

Bloodgood has non-dissected foliage that grows into a small, rounded, deciduous tree which typically grows to 15-20′ tall and features purplish-red flowers in spring, deep reddish-purple summer foliage, red samaras (seed pods) in late summer to early fall and good crimson-red fall color.

One of the most popular lace leaf Japanese maples with excellent burgundy foliage and attractive mounding habit. Grows wider than tall.

Vibrant green and white variegations on the leaves of this upright Japanese maple give it a unique appearance. The leaf veins are prominent with multicolored reticulation (netting) further adding to the contrast turning Uber/salmon colors in fall A unique plant that really glows!

A lace-leaf Japanese maple with deep purple spring foliage, turning more red in summer then to fiery red in fall.

A small tree with cascading very finely divided leaves emerging with crimson shades then turn bright green for summer. Fall foliage is a brilliant golden-yellow.

Spectacular leaf coloration distinguishes this upright, but broad, form of Japanese maple. Very deeply divided, narrow leaf lobes display reliable light yellow-green and purple-red variegation, producing a striking effect. In fall, leaves turn orange to red.

A cultivar with a mounding habit and dissected orange-red foliage in the spring.  Fall color is also a fiery orange to red.

A medium size tree with an upright habit. Spring leaves are a deep purple-red with prominent black veins that turn fiery red to orange in fall.

Bright gold foliage matures to light green. Can be grown in full sun without burning.

Dissected, red leafed form with crimson fall color. Habit is mounding, wider than tall.

Lacy green foliage on a mounding small tree.

A cascading form with vivid green dissected leaves and gold fall color. 

From Iseli Nursery’s Jack Frost hybrids, this cultivar has a more cascading habit and finely dissected foliage.  Leaves emerge orange-red before turning green then color up again in the fall.

From Iseli Nursery’s Jack Frost hybrids, this cultivar has new growth emerging red, maturing green then back to brilliant scarlet-orange in the autumn.

A semi-dwarf, narrow-growing cultivar with all the branches growing upward.

A slow grower with a strongly upright form reaching 30 feet tall and 8 feet wide. Brilliant yellow, orange and some red color are displayed in fall.

A very new full moon maple bearing charteuse-yellow fan-shaped leaves in spring then maturing to mid-green in summer and finally changing to brilliant shades of red and orange for fall.

Beautifully rounded leaves of soft gold. Best in light shade.

Rusty colored leaves radiate in an almost circular pattern. A medium-sized shrubby tree.

Shades of bronze and red with green veins color the beautiful foliage of this Full Moon Maple. Smaller and slower growing than most Japanese Maples.

Orange-red leaves with pronounced light green veins.

Spring brings shades of orange to purple on the new growth maturing to solid green in summer then turning orange and red in fall.

A bright yellow foliage form that holds its color well through the summer.  Sun tolerant and vigorous.  Fabulous fall color in gold and reds.

Emerging spring leaves are a vivid carmine red with lime green veins. Mature foliage is gold. More sun tolerant than A. shirasawanum ‘Aureum’.  Strong, upright branching form.

From Buchholz Nursery, a cultivar with very sharply pointed green foliage reminiscent of a child’s drawing of the sun.  Yellow to orange fall color.

deep purple-red finely cut foliage in spring turns to blazing red in fall on this smaller tree.

Colorful red-toned foliage on either end of the season on this small upright tree.  New stems are also purple.

A gorgeous golden full moon maple with spring foliage emerging red with yellow veining then turning all yellow through summer with fall foliage turning bright reds and oranges.

Green foliage is heavily mottled with white. Striking in the fall when the leaves turn shades of orange and red. Strong-growing small tree.  Considered hardier than some Acer palmatum varieties.

‘Claw of the Dragon’ maple named for its foliage with very narrow elongated lobes. Fall color is a brilliant red.  Listed as hardy to Zone 4!

A very cold tolerant Japanese Maple with small green leaves edged in red.

Similar to A. griseum but exfoliating bark is buff and tree is much hardier.

This is a hybrid maple between the Chinese Acer davidii and the American Acer pennsylvanicum combining the beauty of both with gorgeous striped bark and very large leaves.

A large shrub with great foliage and white bottle-brush flowers in July. Wide-spreading, it will form a dense thicket.

Magnificent silvery cream spring foliage turns lime green by midsummer. Slow-growing southeast native.

A large multi-stem shrub or small tree with white flowers in very early spring. Foliage is blue-green turning red in the autumn. Red berries in summer mature to purple and are edible. Excellent native for groves or border.

An improved and compact form with clusters of white flowers in spring followed by larger bright red berries. The fall foliage is bright red making it stand out.

A compact habit with fragrant flowers in spring, purple berries in summer and deep red fall foliage. Deer and drought resistant

A new low, mound-shaped cultivar from Proven Winners.  Same great shiny foliage, red fall color and black fruit of the species and just as tough.