Acer campestre

field maple - hedging range

size: 25 plants - 40-60cm

available to order from autumn 2012

£36.99

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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

  The Royal Horticultural Society bare root hedging range is a very low cost way of planting a hedge. The bare root plants are only available to buy and plant when dormant. (November-March) These plants, with known seed provenence, are grown in 220 acres of rich Herefordshire soil. As they are dispatched directly from the fields, rather than through a nursery, they are much fresher than imported or even stored plants. RHS bare root plants are grown through low input horticultural methods. Plants are rotated with pigs annually, to improve soil condition. Water is harvested in the winter for use in the summer. No heat or polytunnels are used and, as the plants are dispatched direct from the fields, transport is kept to a minimum.

  
  
  To find out more about how to plant a hedge click here

  
  
  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.

  Please note that as we grow the hedging especially for you, we need to take full payment when you place your order so as to reserve stock for you. The bareroot plants will then be despatched to you during November.

  • Eventual Height: 8m
  • Eventual Spread: 3m
  Acer campestre - field maple - hedging range Licenced by the Royal Horticultural Society