A maple collection is bought one cultivar name at a time. Leafolio keeps the cultivar, the nursery it came from, whether it is grafted, and a season-by-season photo record together on one page.
A Japanese maple collector does not buy “a red maple.” They buy ‘Tamukeyama’, then ‘Crimson Queen’, then a grafted ‘Shaina’ from a specific nursery on a specific spring. The cultivar name is the whole point, and so is whether the tree is grafted or seed-grown, because that decides what it will become.
The other half of a maple collection is the calendar. The same tree is a different plant in April, July, and October, and collectors live for that turn of color. Leafolio holds the cultivar, the source, and a photo record across the seasons, so the identity of each tree never rests on a fading nursery tag.
Not rigid app fields, just the things this community tends to write down. In Leafolio they live with the plant, however much detail you want to add.
Species and cultivar in their own fields, so ‘Aconitifolium’ reads the same every time you search it.
Add a photo each spring, summer, and fall, and watch the same tree change on one page.
Note whether a tree is grafted or seed-grown, because it changes everything about how it grows out.
Which nursery each maple came from, what you paid, and the condition it shipped in.
Pot versus in-ground, sun exposure, and where in the garden each tree actually lives.
Keep the cultivars you are still chasing, with the nurseries who graft them, ready for the next order.
Independent organizations and references worth bookmarking. Leafolio has no affiliation with any of them.
A resource for people interested in Acer knowledge, conservation, cultivar identity, and the wider maple community, with events and shared expertise among collectors. Helpful when you are pinning down a cultivar or learning from other growers. Leafolio is independent and not affiliated with the Maple Society of North America.
www.maplesocietynorthamerica.org ↗Leafolio is an independent plant collection app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any society, organization, nursery, or cultivar registration authority mentioned on this page. Links are provided as helpful resources for plant collectors.
