Why Plant Redpointe® Red Maple?
Redpointe® Red Maple is a classy, medium-sized shade tree with a neat, clean, teardrop-shaped outline. This fast-growing tree will stand tall and proud like a sentinel in your landscape all season and will glow like a beacon in fall when its leaves turn scorching red. A smart choice for those with hectic lifestyles, this adaptable and unfussy native has no major pest issues. This tree isn’t just a joy in autumn. After a long winter, you’ll also come to celebrate Redpointe® Maple’s tiny but intensely red flowers that arrive with the first warm breath of spring. The allergy-prone members of your household will breathe a little easier, too—the blossoms are female and contribute no aggravating pollen to the atmosphere!
From the folks at J. Frank Schmidt Nursery in Oregon (who brought us the wildly popular Red Sunset® Maple) comes Redpointe®, a top performer in their extensive Red Maple trials. This superior new shade tree has only been on the market since 2006, but JFS had evaluated it for 12 years before giving it their stamp of approval. They found it to be faster growing than other Red Maples, as well as more tolerant of high pH soils and more pyramidal in shape. It also colors up earlier than other Red Maples, showing hints of scarlet as early as the last week of September in Oregon.
How to use Redpointe® Red Maple in the landscape?
Plant a specimen on the front lawn to light up the whole block in autumn or plant a row of Redpointe® Maples along your driveway to turn it into an elegant tree-lined avenue leading to your door!
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zones: 5-9
How To Plant Redpointe® Red Maple
Red Maple is an obliging, adaptable native tree that puts up with less-than-ideal growing conditions and can survive even in urban landscapes. There are a couple of things to keep in mind, however. First, its bark is thin and vulnerable to damage, so be sure to keep string trimmers and lawn mowers well away from the trunk of your tree. Also, like many Maples, this is a shallow-rooted tree, so growing other plants underneath it will be a challenge.
How To Water
Red Maples will appreciate regular water during its first few years in the ground and irrigation during long dry spells after it’s established.
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
Red Maples in general don’t need a lot of attention when it comes to pruning as it is in their nature to grow in the pyramidal shape.
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.
