I am desperately looking for a REAL Acer grandidentatum. I made the mistake of buying what was claimed to be an Acer grandidentatum from a certain tree farm in Longmont, only to find out (after it had been paid for & planted) that it was a horrible Frankenstein combination of an East Coast sugar maple rootstock onto which an Acer grandidentatum had been grafted! I bought the thing hoping that a native Colorado/western USA variety would handle our heavy clay soils, only to find out that the roots originated on the East Coast! The thing isn't growing well, its leaves are a disaster - they curl up & turn brown in the fall, no color, DESPITE expensive iron treatments in the spring & summer. HELP! I want a REAL Acer grandidentatum, not this horrible rip-off!
I am desperately looking for a REAL Acer grandidentatum. I made the mistake of buying what was claimed to be an Acer grandidentatum from a certain tree farm in Longmont, only to find out (after it had been paid for & planted) that it was a horrible Frankenstein combination of an East Coast sugar maple rootstock onto which an Acer grandidentatum had been grafted! I bought the thing hoping that a native Colorado/western USA variety would handle our heavy clay soils, only to find out that the roots originated on the East Coast! The thing isn't growing well, its leaves are a disaster - they curl up & turn brown in the fall, no color, DESPITE expensive iron treatments in the spring & summer. HELP! I want a REAL Acer grandidentatum, not this horrible rip-off!