Japanese Maple Red Emperor

Japanese Maple Red Emperor is a compact, brilliant purple-leafed variety that will delight you from spring through fall with bold foliage and an elegant vase-like silhouette! Find a special place for this hardworking, very adaptable little tree!From spring through summer, the wide, many-"fingered" leaves on this tree are a rich, deep purple. Then, when the fall chill arrives, they turn a brilliant wine-red! And no matter how hot and humid your summers get, Red Emperor won't green out. Color that fast is hard to find, and you'll love how Red Emperor holds out when other trees around it are melting!If you've got a small garden or limited space left for planting a large accent, Red Emperor is the tree you need. Just 15 feet high and wide at maturity, it has a compact, manageable shape that needs no trimming to look symmetrical and tidy. Perfect for the patio, front-yard specimen, or central point of a shrub or perennial planting!Like most Japanese Maples, Red Emperor thrives in full sun in northern climates, partial shade farther south. It's a fine "trellis" for your Clematis, its well-divided branches making perfect footholds for pink or blue varieties. It also makes a nice backdrop to Gaura in the sun and Heuchera in partial shade. The possibilities are endless with this adaptable tree!Very heat-tolerant and vigorous, Red Emperor is among the most cold-hardy of the Japanese Maples, having survived temperatures of -29 degrees F without damage. If you're on the edge of this tree's hardiness range, chances are you can give it a little extra protection and it will grow stress-free in your climate!Space trees about 15 feet apart, and water them well the first few seasons to get their root systems established. Zones 5-8.


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