USDA Organic Red Sunset® Red Maple

Red Sunset® Maple is a four-season shade tree. You will find this popular selection of our native Red Maple is not only great for picnicking under or tying the hammock to in summer, but you’ll appreciate the joy it brings to your garden throughout the year. In fall, Red Sunset’s® leaves turn as red as a dead-ripe beefsteak tomato. In late winter, look for the canopy to erupt once more—this time in a hazy of tiny flame-red flowers to kick off the start of spring. We are pleased to offer this best-selling Red Maple tree for sale not only in its usual street-tree form, but also as a multiple-trunked specimen. It’s your choice!

J. Frank Schmidt Nursery in Boring, Oregon has introduced dozens of unique new trees (82 and counting, in fact) over the years. Their most famous selection of all, however, remains Red Sunset® Maple, which debuted in 1966. It was chosen for its glowing scarlet-red fall color and symmetrical, well-branched habit. Few newer selections have proven to be an improvement over this classic. Our “Clump-Form” Red Sunsets® offer a different take on the usual form. Three or more trunks rise from the ground, in the manner that some Birches are grown.

This is one sunset that will never fade away! Red Sunset Maple is one of the best selections of the native Red Maple around and an excellent choice for street trees or as a specimen in your yard. In spring, new foliage is tinged with red eventually turning green with silver undersides. Those bright green leaves turn to bright red in fall supplying you with the most memorable sunset you can enjoy from your front porch!

Tread lightly, shrink your footprint, and let yourself grow with USDA Certified Organic Trees. Organic farming has sprung up drastically in importance and influence, spreading worldwide the philosophy of deeply rooting nature in harmony and enriching the soil we stand upon. Benefitting the gardener, enhancing biodiversity, preserving nature's wildlife, and a true direction to protecting our environment. Choosing organic trees on your property, whether they are fruit, nut, ornamental, or shade trees, begins with their soil and cultivates change taking root in your backyard. Take one BIG TREE step for your garden, and one giant leap towards a greener world.

What does it mean to be USDA Organically grown?

• USDA Organic crops are grown exclusively on land that has gone without having non-USDA Organic approved substances applied for three years.
• No pesticides for us, please! Organically grown crops are highly regulated on what can and cannot be used for pest control—worried about harsh chemicals that have been sprayed on your plant? There is only a small number of approved synthetic chemicals that are allowed to be used. Otherwise, farmers use strict biological, mechanical, and physical management practices.
• Not just any type of seeds are used to grow and harvest organic plants: farmers can only use organic seeds or organically raised seedlings in their organic fields.
• Only the best handling is allowed! Organic and non-organic crops are not allowed to be commingled or near each other. Cross-contamination can occur, botching the organic plant's purity due to non-organic substances that could have been sprayed on non-organic harvests; this would cause the organic plant to be considered compromised.
• Fields are carefully cultivated through crop rotation and proper tillage practices to ensure that the soil and the soil's nutrients are kept at a happy balance. Animal manure, not sludge, is allowed to help infuse the soil with nitrogen to support the growth of the organic crops.