Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'
Archive entry 02.05.06
1st May 2006
This gorgeous little dwarf fills me with joy during april and may. The bright pale luminous leaves are a wonder unlike any other, and by june, the tree is as dull as ditchwater, with
leaves of an equally unique unpleasant green. I love it, I hate it. By october it is just a pile of sticks, and I can rest my emotions for the year.
19th April 2007
I keep it in a pot in the shade, because in full sun it can develop the strangest yellow tints.
20th April 2008
It is a tree with a short window of spectacular beauty. As you can see, for the last three years I have photographed it at the end of April.
Astonishing peach leaves, just starting to develop green tints along the veins.
17th April 2009
The first flush of growth is brilliant red, before it fades through salmon to yellow green.
24th April 2011
Poor old tree really needs me to find a space for it in the garden, at the moment I am more concerned with taking out trees that are no longer needed
but the plan is to give myself space for all the new things that have to go in.
9th May 2015
It has now been planted out and although it is suffering a bit in the sun, it should eventually grow more vigorously.
29th May 2019
Introduced some time before 1905, it received an Award of Merit from the RHS in 1925 and a First Class certificate in 1977.
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.