Purple Ghost Japanese Maple Acer palmatum Purple Ghost 2 - Year Live Tree

I was super happy with my tree it was so beautiful. I've wanted this tree for along time have had it saved on my list .but today it died no one's fault just so happened we got spring snow in PA I'm super sad. Think you for my beautiful ghost maple .

update 5-4-2013 sadly this tree didnt survive. i babied it for about a year. even kept it inside to shield it from the elements. it was slowly dieing the entire time. the moral of the story is sometimes a deal is not a deal. i basically paid $70 for 1 tree and even the one that survived is barely hanging on and has never straightened out from being bent in half in the box. If the other one dies I will be sure to update this review again Original Review This review was originally written for the Fireglow maple but I oredered them at the same time and the details apply to both. Just be aware that the smaller tree mentioned in the review is the purple ghost maple. These trees are going to be really pretty if I am able to rehab them. Unfortunately the way these were packaged and the way they were not taken care of before being delivered left both of the trees I ordered from this company in poor shape. The first problem is that they were boxed in 2 USPS priority boxes that were stuck together by their glue strips to make one larger box. Unfortunately one of the trees was twice as tall as the boxes so the solution by the seller was to bend the tree in half and shove it into the box anyway. Really, I paid $16 for shipping for 2 trees and they couldn't buy a box that fit? So of course this tree now has a 90 degree curve. I am sure this will straighten out over time but this could have been handled better. Not only that but I ordered two trees and paid $8 each for shipping but they crammed both trees into the same package. I would have been okay with them both being in the same package and the company making a profit on the shipping if they had just put them both in a box that would fit them both. Fortunately the second tree was a 1 year graft so it wasn't as tall and didn't have to be bent to fit into the box. The second problem with these trees is they stripped all of the foliage off of the trees with the exception of the very top. I am not sure if they did this so they could propagate the clipped portions to make a larger profit off of this one or if they thought the root system would not support this amount of foliage, to give them the benefit of the doubt I will assume the latter but I don't think this needed to be done because the tiny little pots they had them in were bursting at the seems with roots. Another option is that they did it so that they could fit both trees into the same box. And yet another option is that the rest of the foliage was in such poor shape they pruned it off, which leads me to the third problem. What Foliage these trees still had was very damaged by insects. I hope that with a little TLC I can nurse these guys back to health but at this point I cant be sure. The smaller one looks a bit healthier than the larger one. The smaller is a purple ghost maple. I am leaving a review on that one as well. So the bottom line is if you decide to order from this company order small trees and order them 1 at the time. I have attempted to contact the seller to let them know of my disappointment but I have yet to receive a response. I may update this review if I hear back from them but as it stands right now I wouldn't recommend anyone purchase from Japanese Maples and Evergreens. I so hate leaving a negative review but with the condition of these plants and lack of response from the seller I felt I needed to warn anyone thinking about buying these. Honestly this situation makes me want to buy the rest of them just to rescue them from this nursery. Its a shame to see such beautiful species treated this way. Even if the seller does respond to me at this point I don't want a refund and I am not sending the trees back because honestly it is worth the $70 for the two trees and shipping to try and rescue them.

The plant arrived in an appropriately sized box, wrapped fairly well, with a stake to keep it from crashing top-first into the box during shipping. I immediately moved it to a warm sunny place on our deck and kept it watered. I did not repot it yet, as it's quite a small plant and I wanted to see if it would survive. The leaves were damaged a bit during shipping and never really recovered. The spots on those leaves dried up and turned brittle, but the rest of the leaves remained quite red so I knew it wasn't dying (yes, mine is a stunning shade of red, not purple, but I'm still happy with it - see picture in customer images). After almost two months of watching it, three days ago I noticed that it sprouted about nine new tiny leaves halfway down the main stalk - the place at which it was grafted, I believe. They are very bright, very healthy, and uncurling in the cutest way. I'll now go through the trouble of repotting it (suggestions would be helpful for the correct medium in which to plant this) and let it grow for a year or two in hopes of planting it outside eventually.

I was very pleased with the packaging and the live plant is doing well. I am looking forward to it's growth in the next year as it was a bit smaller than anticipated.

After one week all leaves fell off. And a week later the plant died.

Teeny tiny graph looks to be healthy, box it was shipped in was pretty small and it was in with another tree that was bent in half. Order each tree separately or they might try and jam them all in one box and bend them in half like they don't care.

The Japanese maples are not what they say they are. They are very small grafts. They are not 2 year old trees. Mine came bone dry and the leaves were dried up and dying. Please don't waste your money on these trees. I really wanted the purple ghost and floating cloud but I should have waiting to buy them from a Japanese maple nursery. Now I am out about $80.00 and have two trees that are probably going to die. Please shop around and buy from a good nursery.

I ordered this really cool tree without knowing anything about the company. So I was a bit nervous. Well I got it in in speedy fashion; but was concerned as it was nothing but a stick. So I kept an open mind and put it in my grow room (after repotting it into a high quality soil and good size pot) - warm, grow lights - for plants that it is just too early to place out in the late winter/early spring (never know when it will frost) weather. I didn't see anything for a while ... but the stem was green. Well when I say this baby burst with Leaves I am not kidding. I check my plants every night when I get home (watering- repotting as needed - adjusting ties etc.) I got home one night and it was covered .. It is really beautiful and just continues to flourish. I think I love this company!