Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’ at Architectural Plants has the best autumn colour of all the acers. Leaves are green in summer but turn the most brilliant, fiery scarlet in the autumn. Slow growing : 15ft in 25 years.
Hardiness level Green
Acer palmatum ‘Arakawa’ at Architectural Plants has such charm in its rough bark that develops on mature specimens. It can reach approximately 15ft, with foliage emerging pinky-green, darkening in the summer and turning a red-orange in the autumn.
Hardiness level Green
A rare and unusual coloured Maple. The new leaves are nearly white with a pink flush. They mature to green with white markings in the summer, turning shades of
bright peach and red in the autumn. The leaves become more variegated as the tree ages. Height 2.5-3m.
An upright form of the Japanese Maple. Could reach 10 foot in height. The leaves are yellow-orange in spring, bright green in the summer and golden yellow in the autumn. Best colour in dappled shade.
A lovely acer, deciduous and hardy, growing to about 4m in height. It carries 7 lobed, lightly serrated leaves that emerge a purply-red, mature to maroon in the summer and then turn bright red before falling in the Autumn.
Sango-Kaku is a small tree growing to 6m in height. They have branches which are coral red when young and pinkish yellow leaves becoming green in summer and then yellow in autumn.
Hardiness level Green
A beautiful hardy, deciduous acer with small bright green palmate leaves turning vivid orange in the autumn. The weeping habit gives a spread of up to 3.5m across and 2m in height over 20 years.
Hardiness level Green
A large shrub or small tree, 4m in height with an upright and open habit. The palmate leaves emerge salmon pink then darken to a textured red with the classic network of veining, finishing the year in a blaze of scarlet foliage.
Hardiness level Green
If you love pinks and reds then this is the tree for you. A little tree, only getting to about 3m in height, the pinky-purple new leaves are margined with bright pink in the spring. The leaves turn a reddish-purple in the summer followed by a deeper in the Autumn.
Hardiness level Green
