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Autumn Blaze Maple
$44.99
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Ripening
Will it finish before your first hard freeze?
Check it on the Ripening Map (opens in a new tab)At a glance: Autumn Blaze Maple is a maple tree rated hardy to zone 3 in our ratings (winters to -40°F), and needs no pollination.
| Hardy to | Zone 3 to 8. A bare number means the whole of zone 3, colder half included (winters to -40°F). Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
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| Pollination | No Pollination Needed. Autumn Blaze is grown for shade and fall color and rarely flowers, so it needs no pollenizer and sets few seeds. It offers bees little and is not an orchard pollenizer. Bloom group is our estimate from the variety's origin and relatives. Pollination Charts. |
| Good for | Ornamental value (9/10), shade (7/10). Scores are our own 1 to 10 ratings; 8 and up makes our Best Of lists. |
| What you get | Bare root, 3-4 ft or 4-5 ft or 5-6 ft or 6-7 ft. Shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring, roots wrapped in moist sawdust. Guaranteed to bud out. |
Beautiful orangish-red foliage in the Fall. Susceptible to acute crotch angles (use limb spreaders!) and given our alkaline soils in Montana, keep a bag of elemental sulfur on hand because Autumn Blaze is also susceptible to Iron induced chlorisis when calcium and carbonate bind at exponential rates the higher above 7.2 pH your soils are. Hardy to zone 3. Super pretty.
Questions we get about Autumn Blaze Maple
How cold hardy is Autumn Blaze Maple?
We rate Autumn Blaze Maple hardy to zone 3, which means winters down to about -40°F. Our ratings come from real winters at our two Montana sites and from trusted growers across the North, not from a catalog average.
What is Autumn Blaze Maple good for?
Our top use scores for Autumn Blaze Maple are ornamental value (9/10), shade (7/10). Anything scored 8 or higher makes our Best Of lists.
What arrives, and when does Autumn Blaze Maple ship?
A dormant bare-root plant, roots wrapped in moist sawdust with a vapor barrier, shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring. Sizes offered: 3-4 ft or 4-5 ft or 5-6 ft or 6-7 ft. We guarantee our plants bud out. Stone fruits can be slow, so if one still has not budded out by August 15, write to us and we credit you for the following spring.