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The ACER database
How to order:- Indicate your interest in the space provided on the Order form.
Availability:- TBA. Order your copy now.
Current Status: Plant Names + Photo Intensive. Input from Horticulturists to follow.
Contributors: (1) George Kelly, Co Down, N Ireland.
Classification Used: N/A
The Project : Ongoing.
Update Frequency: Twice per year envisaged.
Applications:
Of interest to any Plant Society, Nursery, Hybridiser etc. around the world.
Installation is unnecessary. The database is intended for
viewing in a CD drive using a registered installation of the Ideas Genie software. You CANNOT view the material on this SWAP CD in evaluation mode.
If so desired, licenced users of Ideas
Genie can restore this database from the CD and adopt it as a starting point to document their own collection.
The photos (and plant information) on the CD may be viewed either selectively or in slide shows.
The Slide show components are designed to be entirely suitable for both home enjoyment and
for professional presentations.
Useful for Gardening Club talks.
Self running demos can be configured for display booth use in Garden Centres.
Data on any plant in the database can be easily accessed.
...and a multitude of other uses!
About Acers:
Acers are loved for their
finely cut leaves, their spectacular spring foliage colour, their brilliant fall colour, their decorative bark. Some varieties exhibit a number of these characteristics.
About the Acer Database:
As a new gardener, the first Acers I learned about were in books and supplier catalogs.
I’d never spotted any Acers in
gardens in my locality (at that time) so I bought as many different varieties as I could justify at the time. As soon as I unpacked them I knew immediately that these plants were something
quite special. My expectations were exceeded, and so it has been with every specimen I have had the good fortune to find, and take photographs of, over the years.
These plants are very
slow growing, and consequently, mature specimens are very expensive. I’ve taken photos of plants, in pots, with a £1000 ($1500 approx) price tag.
Many varieties of Japanese Maples can be trained as Bonzai specimens.
My biggest problem was where to plant them, and what to plant them with.
I hope the photos in this database will help other gardeners to make those decisions.
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