• Eventual Height: 8m
  • Eventual Spread: 3m
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Acer campestre

field maple - hedging range

size: 10 bareroot 45-60cm   available to order from autumn 2010   £19.99

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  • Position: full sun or partial shade
  • Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained
  • Rate of growth: fast-growing
  • Flowering period: April to May
  • Flower colour: purple-red
  • Other features: young leaves are flushed with reddish purple
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

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    This fast growing native makes a wonderful dense, deciduous hedge and is quite tolerant of coastal conditions and cold, exposed sites. In spring the emerging deeply lobed foliage is flushed with red, but it gradually turns a lush, mid green and stays that colour throughout summer. It then takes on buttery yellow tones as the temperatures start to drop again in autumn. Small greenish-yellow flowers appear in spring, which are hardly noticeable, but the subsequent, winged fruits are quite attractive. Plant at 45cm intervals.

  • Garden care: Cut back in winter when the plants are fully dormant as Acers tend to 'bleed' sap if cut while they are actively growing.

    • Eventual Height: 8m
    • Eventual Spread: 3m

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