Acer rubrum - Canadian Maple

The Red Maple tree, Acer rubrum is big, vigorous and upright. It makes a great screening tree for a big garden and will give the best display of autumn colour when it is growing on heavy clay in full sun.
Red Maple trees can reach a height of about 30 metres.
Standard trees are the largest size that we deliver; you can also buy younger Red Maple saplings here.
Browse all of our other varieties of Maple Trees & Hedging plants for sale here.

How Standard Trees are Measured:
All the plants in the ornamental trees section are graded as standards, which means that they are measured by their girth in centimetres 1 metre above ground level (basically, their trunk's waist measurement). They aren't measured by their height, which will vary. So, a 6/8 standard has a trunk with a circumference of 6-8 centimetres and an 8/10 standard has a trunk 8-10 centimetres around. This measurement makes no difference to the tree's final height.
Standard trees are 2 - 3.5 metres tall (on average) when they arrive; they are the most mature trees that you can buy from us. We cannot tell you precisely how tall your trees will be before we deliver them.

General description of Red Maple trees:

The Red Maple tree, Acer rubrum, is a large, upright tree with dark green leaves that turn a fantastic scarlet red in the autumn. During winter, the red-brown young twigs provide some interest. In early spring, before the leaves have emerged, the tree is covered in puff-balls of red and warm orange flowers.

History & uses of Acer rubrum

This American tree was imported to Europe in the 1650's.

Notes on planting Red Maple trees:
Red Maple is a vigorous tree that can grow pretty much anywhere, from wet clay to sandy areas, though its growth will be much slower if the soil is dry.
It will grow on chalk, but if you want to see the best autumn colour, they need to be planted on soils that are neutral or acidic.

Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the site where you plant a tree several months in advance. Kill the weeds first: for tough weeds like nettles, brambles and ground elder, you will usually need a glyphosate based weed-killer to get rid of them. When you dig the soil over, remove stones and other rubbish and mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades.

Watch our video on how to plant a tree for full instructions.
Remember to water establishing trees during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Tree Planting accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
You can buy a tree planting pack with a wooden stake & rubber tie to support the tree and a mulch mat with pegs to protect the soil around the base of your tree from weeds and drying out.
We suggest that you use mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of all newly planted large trees: if your soil quality is poor, we strongly recommend it.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
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.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

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 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.

	Buy 3 or more bareroot plants and save

SIZES	1-2	3-9	10+
6/8 std Bareroot	Out of Stock £46.08	Out of Stock£41.16	Out of Stock£35.40
8/10 std Bareroot	Stock = 1 £66.00	Stock = 1 £62.40	Stock = 1 £57.54
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Red Maple Trees

Acer rubrum - Standard

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Acer rubrum - Canadian Maple

General description of Red Maple trees:

History & uses of Acer rubrum

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

Red Maple Trees

Acer rubrum - Standard

Buckle and Strap Ties

From £2.04

Stakes - Tree Planting

From £6.96

Tree Planting Pack

From £10.19

Rootgrow Afterplant Tree & Shrub

From £6.95

Acer rubrum - Canadian Maple

General description of Red Maple trees:

History & uses of Acer rubrum

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

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