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Canadian Red Maple Tree | Acer rubrum

Well-shaped specimen tree with dazzling autumn colour

Grown by John

South Downs National Park

2 Year Old Tree in 9L Pot

120-150cm on arrival

£60

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The highlights

  • Red-tinted foliage turns dark green as it matures
  • Tiny red flowers in spring, followed by red fruits
  • Brilliant autumn display of warm reds and yellows
  • Plant as a feature tree in a large garden

Description

  • A fast growing, well shaped deciduous tree with fabulous autumn colour
  • Clusters of tiny red flowers appear in spring, followed by red fruits
  • That unmistakable lobed maple foliage emerges with a red tint, matures to dark green with a white underside and takes on spectacular golden yellows and fiery reds in the autumn
  • A beautiful specimen tree all year round, ideal for street or lawn planting
  • Attractive smooth grey bark provides winter interest, becoming ridged and furrowed with age
  • Low maintenance and easy to grow
  • Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching. This formative pruning can involve cutting the main leader, if the expert tree growers decide this will produce a better shaped tree. This can stop the tree becoming "leggy", and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE

What To Expect

Supplied as:

9L poly-pot
This tree is supplied in a 9L Poly-Pot, which is approx D15 x H30cm. Poly-Pots use 70% less plastic than traditional pots and can be recycled. A 9L pot allows ample space for good root development and can support a good size tree.

Height on arrival:

120-150cm
Depending on the time of year, your tree will arrive at a height between 120-150cm including pot.

Eventual height:

12-20m

Eventual spread:

8-15m
Spreads between 8-15m

Time to first crop:

Flower colour:

Red
Tiny red flowers in erect clusters

Habit:

Bushy
This tree has a pyramidal shape when young, maturing to a rounded or oval shape at maturity

Hardiness:

Fully hardy
H6 - hardy in all of UK and northern Europe (-20 to -15)

Rootstock:

Spacing:

9m
Plant 9m apart to allow for spreading

How To Grow

Good pest and disease resistance

May be affected by aphids, horse chestnut scale or verticillium wilt

Water in well

Water in thoroughly when planting. For bare root trees, you won't need to water regularly, only in dry spells when needed. You should be able to tell because the leaves will start to wilt and droop. If a container grown tree, it will need more watering until its roots are established. It should be watered every other day or so for the first few months. Then reduce to twice a week until autumn. In the second year it should have an established enough root system to support itself, just water when required as explained above for bare roots. When watering a tree it is important to give a good soaking. It is better to water heavily and less frequently than little and often as this encourages the roots to grow down into the ground.

Full sun to partial shade

This tree loves full sun or partial shade in a sheltered location.

Most fertile, well-drained soils

This tree will flourish in any moderately fertile, moist and well drained soil. It prefers slightly acid conditions.

Feed annually

Feed in early spring before the leaves emerge, with a granular general purpose fertiliser ?v=1613300929

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South Downs National Park

Meet John

110 years' expertise free with every tree

John’s family have been growing trees in the South Downs National Park for over a century, and it shows. Dug up and sent straight to your garden at between 18-36 months old, their quality rootstocks, expert pruning and natural pest control mean that these traditionally field-grown trees are the hardiest you can get.

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