From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

I confess to something of a weakness for Japanese maples and I suspect I'm not alone.

And now thanks to breeding work by experts like today's guests,

there are more and more varieties being made available that are suited to a widening range

of climate zones and garden conditions, meaning the circle of maple lovers can keep on growing.

More in a moment about these choices of small garden trees with the founders of Mr. Maple

Nursery, but first these messages. Underwriting support for a way to garden provided by Colorblends

wholesale flower bulbs, a third-generation bulb company

offering top-sized flower bulbs directly to landscape professionals

and ambitious residential gardeners at wholesale prices.

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and by high-moving seeds, WupVermont offering 30 new seed varieties for 2024, professional

quality vegetable, flower and herbal seeds that are 100% organic and non-GMO project verified,

on the web www.HimoewingCeads.com and www.WhiteflowerFarm offering a wide range of carefully selected and expertly grown garden plants.

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Brothers, Matt and Tim Nichols are the forces behind MrMaple.com,

a North Carolina-based retail male-order nursery with a staggering collection of about 1500 different Japanese maple varieties to offer. They ship 100 trees a day year round as

many as 700 plus a day in peak season and as if that were not enough last fall the nickels brothers

acquired and esteemed wholesale nursery in Oregon, buckholtz and buckholtz. So now they're selling

to garden centers too. I'm so glad to welcome them to the program today to talk about these

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