April is the month everything starts to grow and the arrival of long daylight hours means more time available to spend in the garden . Time was Japanese maples were pretty limited in the garden centres as you had the smaller ones like palmatutm purpurea and a golden version and a larger one called Crimson King and that was about it but now there are a lot more available and this month we added a variety called Koto no ito which if it does well will complement nicely with a purpureum planted beside it . Koto no Ito has amazing foliage , the name is Japanese for harp strings and […]