Writer and broadcaster Clive James reads his poem Japanese Maple on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

Q. I have a small, three-year-old Japanese maple tree that had red leaves when it was planted. Now, the leaves are green each year. Is there anything that I can do to make them red again? -- James ...

Clive James’s 2014 poem is a poignant meditation on his impending death. He has died at 80 in England.

Japanese maples are relatively low-maintenance trees, but they can face challenges in hot, sunny conditions without proper soil care.

The terminally ill Australian polymath Clive James, 74, a longtime contributor to Slate, has written the kind of poem that will bring your day to a standstill. “Japanese Maple” appears in the ...

Terminally ill Australian author, critic and raconteur Clive James has detailed his revelations of life and death in an emotional poem.

The broadcaster and author picked up his pen in 2014, four years after his terminal diagnosis and five years before he died, to describe his wish to see leaves on a Japanese maple tree change colour ...

Writer and broadcaster Clive James reads his poem Japanese Maple on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

Terminally ill Australian author, critic and raconteur Clive James believes he has only a short time left to live, detailing his final revelations of life and death in an emotional poem.