Sawa Chidori Size:3 GAL SIZE 36" - 42" tall

Sawa Chidori Size:3 GAL SIZE 36" - 42" tallSawa Chidori is quickly earning a name as a collector's item among Japanese maple fanatics. It is proving itself as an excellent variegated variety. In the fall the leaves will begin to fade to a creamy yellow white with bright green veining and lovely hand shaped leaves we have come to love in the palmatums. The creamy veined leaves are quite pleasing but they are just another passing phase of this little maple and the fall color will be quite

cone-shaped flower clusters (to 8" across) open creamy white

winter and early spring landscape

Blooming from mid winter into early spring

Be aware that in some regions a late frost can damage the new

This plant will survive with very low maintenence

The plant is a hybrid between the Burmese rhododendron R

I patiently grew Martha Wright for a couple years before I was humbled by her bloom

compact mounding grower

from early winter to mid spring long racemes of magenta-pink flowers cover the plant

revealing silvery undersides

The flowers seem to last and last…its best feature

and in spring has a dusty white coating called tomentum that they believe is a natural insect proofing