Bare root stock available Oct-April or PRE ORDER NOW and reserve Red Maple-Acer Rubrum. Hardy tree, deep loped dark green leaves turning brilliantly red in autumn together with tiny clusters of red springs flowers. Makes an excellent specimen tree. As a landscape feature this is a good component of a mixed clump. It looks particularly good close to water. The life-span is seldom more than 150 years, and the species appears to have arrived in Britain before 1656. A plant was recorded in Tradescants Fulham nursery in that year. Any pruning should only be carried out in late summer. It requires very little routine maintenance.