Japanese Maples Garden Tour

Bill Hudgins' garden is a study in textures. Japanese maples, English boxwoods, ferns and hostas fill his hillside retreat in northwest Atlanta. 

Most Japanese maples prefer part shade, but many thrive in full sun, unfurling their most vibrant fall color.

This maple, Acer palmatum 'Shishigashira', features heavily curled green leaves that give an interesting texture to this compact, shrubby tree. The foliage becomes purple-red with orange-red patterns in fall. 

Hudgins' Buckhead garden is part formal, part natural with bridge-covered streams meandering the wooded property. There, he's lovingly nurtured his collections of Japanese maples, boxwoods and hostas.