Acer Red Flamingo | 3L Pot (1m)

An ornamental maple with pink and white variegated leaves and red stems. Position: full sun or partial shade Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained neutral to acid soil Rate of growth: slow-growing Hardiness: fully hardy This showy maple can be grown as a large shrub, or trained as a small tree and used to add height to courtyard or patio gardens. It’s a very colourful cultivar and offers year-round interest with its lobed leaves, which emerge each spring with a pink flush, but mature to an irregular mix of green, pink and cream. Even the young stems are eyecatching, as these are almost a luminous red, but as they age they develop white markings – and this looks adds a splash of colour throughout the winter, long after all the foliage has been shed. Garden care: Add a top-dressing of a multi-purpose fertiliser around the base of the plant in late spring. No routine pruning is required. Remove any dead, damaged or crossing branches in April when the plant is in full growth