Red Canadian Maple Sapling Plants

Red Maple, Acer rubrum, is a large, upright tree with red flowers, red-orange autumn leaves and pink seeds. It is a great screening tree, suitable for large gardens and parks. Suitable for most soils.
Red Maple isn't really suitable for a hedge; use field maple instead.
Red Maple trees can reach 30 metres high.
The plants on this page are young saplings, ideal for large scale planting or in woodland projects. You can also buy larger Red Maple trees here.
Browse all of our other varieties of Maple Trees & Hedging plants for sale here.

Red Maple Sapling plants are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March).
All our bareroot plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

General description of Red Maple plants:

This big tree has pretty little red and orange flowers on the bare branches in early spring, before the leaves burst. The autumn leaf colour is a bright, mottled red and orange and the winged seeds also have pink membranes. The tree has an upright habit, with a canopy about half as wide as it is tall, up to 20 metres across.

History & uses of Acer rubrum:

This tree was imported to Europe in the 1650's from North America, where is known as Swamp Maple or Soft Maple. It likes moist ground, but is isn't really suitable for a proper bog.

Growing Red Maple plants:
Red Maples grow well on almost any soil, apart from very poor dry earth or waterlogged sites and they won't give their best autumn colour on chalky ground.

Prepare your site before planting:
Red Maple trees are very tough. The only essential preparation is to kill the weeds in a strip a metre wide along the planting site: improving the soil should not be necessary. If your soil is exceptionally poor and dry, then digging in some well rotted manure and/or compost is worthwhile.

Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Planting Accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
If you are planting in an area with rabbit and/or deer, you will need to use a plastic spiral guard for each plant, supported by a bamboo cane.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Soil	Acidic
Type	Screening
Also Good	Autumn Colour

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Red Maple Sapling Trees

Acer rubrum

Red Canadian Maple Sapling Plants

General description of Red Maple plants:

History & uses of Acer rubrum:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Late Summer Colour with Anemones

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Red Maple Sapling Trees

Acer rubrum

Red Canadian Maple Sapling Plants

General description of Red Maple plants:

History & uses of Acer rubrum:

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Late Summer Colour with Anemones

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Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?