CLASSIC COLORFUL SYCAMORE
FEATURES:
- Perfect shade tree for your backyard
- Beautiful and tough specimen tree
- Large, captivating maple-like leaves
- Interesting and fascinating marble-pattern camouflage effect on the bark, creating year round interest
- Disease and cold resistant
- Hand selected fresh from our grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8
- Mature Height: 60-70' tall
- Mature Width: 60-70' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 60-70' apart
EXCLAMATION!™ London Planetree (Sycamore)
Bower & Branch Trees and Plants
Platanus x acerifolia 'Morton Circle'
Regular price
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CLASSIC COLORFUL SYCAMORE
FEATURES:
- Perfect shade tree for your backyard
- Beautiful and tough specimen tree
- Large, captivating maple-like leaves
- Interesting and fascinating marble-pattern camouflage effect on the bark, creating year round interest
- Disease and cold resistant
- Hand selected fresh from our grower
- Ships on our trucks because of the size of the tree - does not fit in a box
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8
- Mature Height: 60-70' tall
- Mature Width: 60-70' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 60-70' apart
Why plant EXCLAMATION!™ London Planetree (Sycamore)?
Exclamation!™ is the toughest shade tree, period! Exclamation!™ London Planetree can handle whatever comes its way. Drought? Check. Flooding? Check. Road salt? Check. Air pollution? Check. And it’s as handsome as it is resilient. This large tree forms a strong single leader that grows straight and true, while the side branches grow upward to form a confident, upright-oval outline. The bold trunk is smooth to the touch, exfoliating to reveal patches of khaki, gray, army green, and white. The broad, dark green leaves, which remain clean and healthy all season, may briefly turn gold before dropping in fall and putting the tree’s majestic architecture and striking bark on full display.
The London Planetree gets its name from its origin in London over 350 years ago. It became a very popular tree there, even during coal-burning days, when the city was terribly polluted. London Planetree is not an English native, but a hybrid tree derived from our own American Sycamore and the Oriental Planetree from southeastern Europe and western Asia. Exclamation!™ London Planetree was developed at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois in the 1990s and was released through the Chicagoland Grows® program. It was bred to resist anthracnose, a fungal disease that can be troublesome with Planetrees. The new tree was also found to be very resistant to frost-cracking (bark splitting in winter) and powdery mildew, a cosmetic disease.
How to use EXCLAMATION!™ London Planetree (Sycamore) in the landscape?
Looking for some shade in a hurry? Exclamation!™ London Planetree is a fast-growing tree. With proper feeding and irrigation, a young tree may put on three feet of growth per year. As the tree matures, the growth rate will slow to one to one-and-a-half feet per year.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-8
How To Plant EXCLAMATION!™ London Planetree (Sycamore)
Give your Exclamation!™ London Planetree plenty of room to grow and lots of sun for best results. It will tolerate only very light shade. This durable tree isn’t fussy about soil and can deal with compacted soil and other difficult situations, although optimal growth will be on fertile, deep, moist sites with decent drainage.
How To Water
During the first few weeks with your tree, water your Exclamation once or twice a week for about 45 minutes. Once plant has established, turn to only watering during dry spells using the same method of deeply watering for 45 minutes at a time. It will be relatively drought tolerant after the first few years of establishment.
How To Fertilize
Incorporate Elements Starter Plant food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer, start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late fall. Continue this for the first three years to get your plant well established.
How To Prune
Structural pruning your EXCLAMATION!™ London Planetree/ Sycamore every 7-10 years once tree is established is suggested. Make sure to prune your tree in the winter for shaping, removing lower branches will make it easier for new growths to provide shade.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
Our Guarantees
3-YEAR-TREE GUARANTEE:
Bower & Branch offers a Three-Year Tree Guarantee on all of our trees, sizes X-Large and up. Only the finest and the most experienced growers are awarded the opportunity to grow for Bower & Branch, so we offer the best guarantee available.
If your tree(s) should fail for any reason during the three-year guarantee period, you will receive an online gift card in the amount that you originally spent on the tree.* You can then use this online gift card for any Bower & Branch Purchase.
* Bower & Branch provides online gift cards in the amount of the original purchase price of the tree(s). The amount does not include any additional costs such as delivery, planting, tax, or any other products or services. Online gift cards can be applied towards any Bower & Branch purchase on BowerandBranch.com and have no expiration dates. Bower & Branch does not guarantee tree replacement or availability of any desired product at any time. Cash refunds are not offered. Bower & Branch requires that all original tags and receipts are present when a guarantee request is initiated. The Bower & Branch Three-Year Guarantee only applies to plant material that has been planted in the ground. Container plantings are NOT covered.
At Bower & Branch, we do our best to honor all guarantee fulfillment requests to ensure customer satisfaction. However, we reserve the right to refuse the request if the required guarantee steps were not satisfied. Bower & Branch also reserves the right to deny any guarantee fulfillment request that is made as a result of animal damage, problems with plant hardiness and zone issues, or acts of nature (snow storms, hurricanes, and similar).
Reach out to a Plant Whisperer with any questions:
- Email: plantwhisperers@bowerandbranch.com
- Phone: 866-873-3888
- Or via Online Chat
