I have just received a notification that the book store in Japan ‘Chokai book store’ now have a stock of ‘Book for Maples - Masayoshi Yano’(used) for 13200yen. (It’s very expensive though).
Great, you have got it now. The Japanese Yen is currently weak against GBP and USD so for Japanese standards, it is a bit pricey
https://www.docdroid.net/7utmHsy/191full-pdf this pdf is a guide to mass propagating virtually any species of maple from seed to grow as fast as possible to a marketable size in one growing season. The example species is Bigtooth Maple (acer grandidentatum)
I’m posting a link to Poppins Plants in the U.K, a specialist Japanese Maple and Conifer nursery. Their Japanese Maple catalogue is extensive with many rare and hard to find cultivars. I’ve ordered twice now, 2 batches of 14 and been very pleased, well packed and good plants.https://www.poppinsplants.co.uk/
@Acerholic, I went to add them to the resource page at Maples: Nurseries Specializing in Maples Outside of North America | UBC Botanical Garden Forums, and I see they were just added today, presumably by you. Thanks! I thought there used to be an issue that only one user could have permission to update resource pages, am pleased to see that not the case now.
Hi, I wanted to let you know that the Maple Society (after many hundreds of hours of work over the last couple of months) has launched our Maple Cultivar Database benefit. It's a living document, we have many catalogs and thousands of verified pictures in our pipeline, but already it consists of nearly 4800 cultivars of which around 1100 are synonyms, over 600 descriptions, many photos, and 4600 documented and cross-checked information sources. You need to be a member of the British and Irish Branch ( tmsbi.org) or the American branch (maplesocietynorthamerica.org), or in the French, Spanish or Italian regions to have received notification. If you are a member, check your email, and we hope you enjoy! (Note, if you're a member not affiliated with one of these regions, you can contact me separately). I'd also like to extend my grateful thanks to everyone here on the forum who has helped with the research, tracking down leads, slogging through the (sometimes pretty awful) alpha test. It wouldn't have been possible without you. The International Maple Society Cultivar Working Group (CWG) is (in alphabetical order): Emery Davis, Research Lead, Chair TMSBI Robin Gardner, Board Member TMSNA Cor van Gelderen, Esveld Nursery Bill Hibler, Technology Lead, President TMSNA Douglas Justice, University of British Columbia Nicholas Mihajlovic, Maple Society of France, Assistant Registrar Ed Shinn, Shinn Arboretum Alan Tabler, Registrar
I do not understand this, Emery. Are you saying that there is now a Maple Cultivar Database? Is it online? Available to everyone? Or just to members of those various groups? Do people need to request the link to it? If not, what IS the link? I would add it to the appropriate Maples Resource Page (Maple Resources - Online | UBC Botanical Garden Forums?) - would you write the blurb that describes it?
Hi Wendy, 1. Yes, there is now a Maple Cultivar Database. It is The world Checklist of Maple Cultivar Names, by Peter Gregory, Second Edition (Edited and expanded by the Maple Society CWG). 2. Yes, it is online, a living document 3. No, it is available to Maple Society members only. We hope to make limited access available to non-members in future, but only members will have access to the entire database. 4. If you are a Maple Society member, you should get a link. But because of difficulties at TIMS, people who aren't in the regions I've mentioned may not have received a link. The link is not provided publicly at this time. 5. For the resource area, you could put the below. When we add the limited public access, I can provide a link to that, for non-members. The World Checklist of Maple Cultivar Names, First Edition, by Peter Gregory and Hugh Angus, was published in 2008. This living cultivar database, Beta Test Edition, may be thought of as the Second Edition of this work, with many corrections and additions, as well as additional information, pictures, and descriptions. It will be constantly updated with new or currently unlisted cultivars, pictures from our large available validated repositories, descriptions, group according to the Japanese Maple classification, and more. If you are not already a member, please contact the Maple Society for information on joining. Best, good to have the forum back, Wendy! -E
Thanks for answering all the questions, @emery! I have added it to the Resource page. Here is one more question. On the blurb for the Maple Society at the top of that Maple Resources page, where it says: The Maple Society's Open Science Initiative shares articles related to maple botany and culture -- including Peter Gregory's Maple Profiles -- in several languages.should I change "Peter Gregory's Maple Profiles - in several languages" to "Peter Gregory's Maple Cultivar Database"? And is it in several languages? Or is that something else that will still be used? I think I should move this thread to https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/maple-resources-discussion-thread.87425/. Okay with you?
Hi Wendy, can you move this discussion and leave the first post where it is? It would be nice for it to stay in a more prominent place, rather buried in the resources thread. I'm fine with move our further discussion though. The OSI's versions of Peter Gregory's Maple Profiles has no relation to this, so should be left separate. As an aside, it may be all the MS links will probably go bad in the near future when the transition to a new website happens. Interesting question re: authorship, it wouldn't be quite accurate to call this Peter's database anymore, but might be a good marketing move. Feels a little odd... Honestly we haven't discussed how authorship should be listed, but now we will, haha. The database is currently in a Beta Test form, adopted so that members won't have any more waiting for the benefit, which was promised almost 5 years ago. The current version has no multilingual support, so users will have to let their browsers do translating as necessary. The eventual cloud-based database should have native multilingual built in. -E
You can set up a redirect so that the old URLs will go to the new site. There seem to be various ways to do that, and it's better than just having the links go bad. But of course we can edit links on the Resource files here.
