Acer palmatum 'Kashima'

1998 (Forest Farm) One of my first. Not really outstanding at first, but is developing into an impressive speciment. I thought I lost it a couple years ago when we had a really late freeze...it was completely leafed out, but by the end of the year, it looked as good as always. I had to do some major surgery with two crossing branches in the center of it, but you'd never know it. It is starting to grow horizontally now, which it is supposed to do. In 2011 with record rainfall, it has almost doubled in size.