Does anyone know anything about gardening?

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lemonade

This leafless stack of sticks is a big Japanese maple. If it's not leafed up or obviously I'm bud by now, it's dead isn't it? Bit mysterious, it has been around forever and I'm not sure what could have killed it over winter - certainly not the cold.

I actually don't love it, it was too majestic to cut down, but doesn't fit the rest of the garden very well at all, so not unhappy if it's spontaneously given up

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ChasnotRobert in reply to @lemonade

quite a few different things in that pic - nice amelanchier - so it's hard to tell if the acer is dead.

looks like there might be a life shoot near the bottom?

mine has been in leaf for several weeks now so i'd agree that something is up with yours.

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lemonade in reply to @ChasnotRobert

The little shoot at the bottom of that pic is actually coming from the amelanchier

Another photo of the possibly dead acer. Looks like possibly it started making buds but they stopped before swelling. It was very shapely of branch, but in leaf a bit of a giant red mound

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