Acer palmatum 'Katsura'
11th April 2015
Large growing cultivar with bright orange spring growth and then orange autumn colour (with a dull green intermission).
17th April 2019
Has grown rapidly and now keeps the orange colour throughout the summer. In autumn it adds some reddish shades in an elegant, delicate (un-inspiring) way.
References:
James Armitage, Dawn Edwards, Neil Lancaster, John G. Hillier and Roy Lancaster (eds), The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs, 8th edition, 2014.
W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, Eighth edition.