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Scarlet Princess Dwarf Japanese Maple - 3 Gallon Pot

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Scarlet Princess Dwarf Japanese Maple – 3 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $219.97.Current price is: $99.99.

SKU: D2LSC 4309332686 Categories: JAPANESE MAPLE TREES, PLANTS & TREES

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‘Scarlet Princess’ Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Scarlet Princess’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9a Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub or Tree

Height at Maturity: 3-5′

Width at Maturity: 4-5′
Spacing: 8’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mound with widely ascending branches

Growth Rate: Fast when young; slows down with age

Foliage Color in Spring: Bright Orange-Red to Deep Bronze-Red

Foliage Color in Summer: Bronze-Purple to Red-tinted Green with bright red new leaves emerging all summer long

Foliage Color in Fall: Bright Scarlet Red

Light Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun, Shade or Mostly Shade

Water Needs: Average, moderately drought tolerant when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt

Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained; Does not tolerate constantly soggy soil

Soil pH: 5.0 – 7.0 is ideal

Maintenance: Low

Resistances: Deer, Heat Tolerant, Insect Resistant, Sun Tolerant, Disease

Description

An offspring from the ever-popular ‘Crimson Queen’ Japanese Maple, ‘Scarlet Princess’ shares many of the outstanding qualities of her parent but grows to only half the size, making her a great fit for smaller garden spaces and containers. While her mom slowly forms a weeping mound to a height of 10 feet tall and wide at maturity, Scarlet Princess vigorously grows to 3 to 4 feet tall and wide when young, maybe reaching 5 feet tall and wide feet over time. In spring, Scarlet Princess flushes bright orange-red thinly dissected lacy leaves on her widely ascending branch stems that turn to a deeper bronze-red as they mature. Summer color can range from purple-red to bronze-tinted green with bright red new leaves emerging throughout the season. With the arrival of cooler temperatures in fall the leaves turn an absolutely stunning scarlet-red.

Landscape & Garden Uses

To showcase its magnificence and beauty, a Japanese Maple is best used in landscape design as a focal point specimen to draw attention to a specific area of the home or landscape. That said, you can plant them in groupings of three or use two to frame an entryway. An ideal selection for landscape beds or in containers.

Suggested Spacing: At least 7 feet apart for space between trees

Note: One Japanese Maple can make a landscape…that is, if you don’t overcrowd it with other trees and plants. Therefore, when choosing companions to plant under or around your Japanese Maple, make sure to select low-growing shrubs or groundcover plants that won’t interfere at all with your tree.

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Japanese Maple variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Though delicate looking, Japanese Maples are actually very tough and long-lived trees that are very easy to grow. Container culture can extend their useful range. They are extremely easy to grow in containers, a practice taken to its most extreme form in the art of bonsai.

In their natural habitat, Japanese Maples are understory trees, growing in dappled forest sunlight at the edges of woodlands. Ideally they prefer to be grown in similar conditions. That said, there are many sun-tolerant Japanese Maple varieties, of which Scarlet Princess is one.

Most any average garden soil will grow Japanese Maples. They prefer a moist but well-drained soil rich in organic matter. As with so many other ornamental plants and trees, constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. So make sure to plant your Japanese Maple in a well-drained site.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Japanese Maple trees.

How To Plant A Japanese Maple Tree In The Ground

How to Plant A Japanese Maple Tree In A Pot

How To Fertilize And Water A Japanese Maple Tree

How To Prune A Japanese Maple

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