{"id":19265,"date":"2020-03-11T06:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2020-03-11T06:10:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:10:16","slug":"wonderful-japanese-maples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wonderful-japanese-maples\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Japanese Maples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Japanese maples, what a wonderful topic for a rainy March day! Our speaker for our Chilton County Master Gardener meeting was David Doggett, a Jefferson County Master Gardener and volunteer at Aldridge Gardens, who grows over 70 cultivars of Japanese maples at his home in Irondale. He discussed choosing a site, selecting a variety, companion plants and planting.  David has donated and planted 51 (48 cultivars) Japanese maples at Aldridge Gardens. <br><br>There are cultivars to meet the needs of most gardeners: small or taller, upright or weeping, fine leaved or more coarse, textured leaves or smooth. Colors often vary from season to season but include reds, pinks, light greens, apricot, yellow, darker greens and more.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-275x275.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-350x350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/D06AD512-85A5-4019-AC97-9A1D0051E05B-250x250.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2020\/03\/1E227AE9-C194-46BB-AB1C-16A47C03D6BD-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19280\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese maples, what a wonderful topic for a rainy March day! Our speaker for our Chilton County Master Gardener meeting was David Doggett, a Jefferson County Master Gardener and volunteer at Aldridge Gardens, who grows over 70 cultivars of Japanese maples at his home in Irondale. He discussed choosing a site, selecting a variety, companion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,18],"tags":[294,44,307],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wonderful Japanese Maples - Chilton County Master Gardeners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wonderful-japanese-maples\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wonderful Japanese Maples - Chilton County Master Gardeners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Japanese maples, what a wonderful topic for a rainy March day! 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