It's week two of August and that means we're fresh into exploring a new topic on the Down the Garden Path podcast. Each week in August, we'll be talking all about deciduous trees and upright evergreens. On this week's episode, we're continuing our discussion with a natural beauty of every landscape, Japanese maples.

Tune into this week's podcast as we discuss Japanese maples.

Some topics we cover in this week's podcast:

• Caring for Japanese maples
  • best time to fertilize and what products to use
  • how to prepare your Japanese maple for the cold winter months
  • tips for pruning
• Popular cultivars in the landscape: dwarf, weeping, uprights
• Joanne and Matt's favourite cultivars

Tune into the Down The Garden Path podcast each week in August for our discussions on deciduous and upright evergreens.

• 17th: Trees for Small Spaces
• 24th: Growing Trees

Join us each week on Down The Garden Path, as professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade.

And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.