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Garden Detective: Caring for a butterfly bush, Japanese red maple tree

January 17, 2013 12:04 PM By JESSICA DAMIANO jessica.damiano@newsday.com

A Monarch butterfly perches on a royal red

Photo credit: Newsday / Leslie Barbaro | A Monarch butterfly perches on a royal red butterfly bush at the Greenburgh Nature Center. (June 27, 2012)

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DEAR JESSICA: I have Japanese red maple trees on my property. Some are an awful shade of green, some are red, and one has a red side and a green side. They all came from the same parent tree. I would like them to be rich burgundy. Would the soil be at fault? --Anthony Angieri, Medford

DEAR ANTHONY: Japanese red maples (Acer palmitum) thrive best when planted in acidic soil, but it's likely...

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