Acer griseum Size:1 Quart and welcomes the occasional grooming

and welcomes the occasional grooming to remove deadwood and open the elegant form to air

each a slim reddish-purple tube opening to five pale-blue lobes

mildly fragrant in the evening and a steady draw for hummingbirds

That refinement is what sets 'Sunburst' apart from a seed-grown shrub: the same toughness in a neater

Acer griseum Size:1 Quart and welcomes the occasional groomingFew trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple. Ernest Henry Wilson gathered seed of Acer griseum in central China in 1901 for the Veitch nursery, and for most of the twentieth century nearly every paperbark grown in Western gardens traced back to that introduction and one that followed. The maple sets abundant winged samaras, yet most are empty, a parthenocarpic habit that leaves only a small fraction viable. That quirk is why