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Quantity	Price	Vendor	Location	Notes	Date Identified
10	140.00	natorp nursery outlet, Mason OH	Lat: 39.31520335 Long: -84.33476832		2013-04-06

Category: Tree
Family:
Genus: Cercidiphyllum
species: japonicum
Origin: China, Japan
Size: 30 (min) to 60 (max)
Size Description: medium to large tree
Notes:
PlantPlaces.com Plant of the Week: October 7, 2012
Cercidiphyllum japonicum ‘Amazing Grace’ – Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura
by: Steve Foltz
This week I was at Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum. Of all the trees that I see at Spring Grove there is one tree that I especially love to show people. That tree is the magnificent Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum ‘Amazing Grace’).

This graceful weeping tree is one of the most underused plants in our region. The foliage is a bluish-green, 2 to 4 inches long and wide that turn yellow in the fall. There is a unique sweet burnt sugar fragrance that hovers around the plant whenever leaves fall from the tree. Every sensory Garden should have an Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura for this trait alone! The leaves on Amazing Grace Katsura are thicker than the species and other cultivars of Katsura making Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura a little tougher than the others. I think when Amazing Grace Katsura was first named some thought that all weeping Katsura trees were the new cultivar ‘Amazing Grace’. This is certainly not the case so when looking for this tree be sure the nursery knows the parentage of the plants they are selling as ‘Amazing Grace’. There is a more upright weeping Katsura named ‘Morioka Weeping’. This too is a fine weeping Katsura but in my opinion has nothing on ‘Amazing Grace’.

The original plant at Spring Grove was donated by Dick Ammon back in the late 70s. Dick received the plant from Theodore Klein, a Kentucky nurseryman from Crestwood, Kentucky. Theodore Klein was the one responsible for propagating and distributing several of the large Amazing Grace weeping Katsura trees we see today.

There are several plants of ‘Amazing Grace’ in the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Louisville regions. Yew Dell Gardens (the former home of the late Theodore Klein), Cave Hill Cemetery and Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum have specimens of the original plants from the late Theodore Klein. Each of these specimens are over 25’ tall and 35 feet wide after 35 plus years in the ground.

Make a point of visiting one of the beautiful specimens of Amazing Grace Weeping Katsura trees this fall. Visit a smaller but beautiful specimen at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens along the railroad tracks by the Reptile House. Do you know of any other specimens and where they are located? Let us know and we will add them to www.plantplaces.com! View other PlantPlaces.com Plant of the Week entries here.


Characteristics: Recommended

Availability:		Limited Availability
Sustainability:		Very Good	See other plants that are sustainable.
Full Sun Tolerance:		Good Performance	See other plants that like full sun.
Part Shade Tolerance:		Good Performance	See other plants that like part shade.

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Bloom history: (Recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio, unless otherwise noted)

4/13/2013 until 4/20/2013 Cincinnati Ohio 39.17135678 -84.52539319See other plants that bloom at this time.

Foliage
Location: Spring Grove
Photo Credit: R. Scott Beuerlein


Grove of Trees at P&G Headquarters
Location: Downtown Cincinnati
Photo Credit: R. Scott Beuerlein


Grove of Trees at P&G Headquarters
Location: Downtown Cincinnati
Photo Credit: R. Scott Beuerlein


Large Tree
Location: Spring Grove
Age: Old
Photo Credit: R. Scott Beuerlein
Season: April

Location: 6 Greenbriar Ft. Mitchell
Photo Credit: Steve Foltz


Location: Columbus
Photo Credit: Steve Foltz


Location: Columbus
Photo Credit: Steve Foltz


Location: Columbus
Photo Credit: Steve Foltz


Tree in fall color
Photo Credit: Steve Foltz


Large tree
Location: Spring Grove Cemetery
Photo Credit: R. Scott Beuerline


Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Location: Cleveland Botanical Garden
Photo Credit: Brandan Jones
Season: May 2013

Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Location: Cleveland Botanical Garden
Photo Credit: Brandan Jones
Season: May 2013

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