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Celebration Maple
Acer x freemanii ‘Celzam’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Celebration Maple - Acer x freemanii ‘Celzam’
‘Celebration’ is a Freeman maple, a cross between the red maple and the silver maple, selected to keep the speed of the silver maple while shedding its notorious weak branch structure. Acer x freemanii in this form grows with a strong central leader and a narrow upright oval crown, holds deeply cut mid green leaves through summer, then turns golden yellow through to orange red in autumn. It is chosen for streets, driveways and larger gardens where a big deciduous shade tree is wanted quickly but a brittle one cannot be risked.
Why Celebration Maple
Improved branch structure: Wider branch attachments and a dominant central leader make it far less prone to storm damage than silver maple.
Growth speed: It reaches useful canopy size faster than most maples, which shortens the wait for real shade.
Autumn colour: Reliable yellow to orange red display, more consistent across Australian conditions than many named red maples.
Upright oval crown: The narrow habit suits nature strips and driveways where a spreading canopy would need constant clearance pruning.
Little to no seed: Selected for minimal seed set, so there is far less samara litter and fewer seedlings in beds and gutters.
Ideal Applications
Driveway avenue: Matched trees at even spacing give a strong formal line with dramatic autumn colour.
Street and verge tree: The upright form and sound structure make it a common municipal choice.
Large garden shade: A single tree provides summer shade over a lawn or terrace and lets winter sun through.
Wet or heavy sites: Its red maple parentage gives it more tolerance of damp, heavy soils than most large deciduous trees.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 5 to 6m apart for a closed canopy line
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 10m apart, and at least 5m from buildings and paving
Best Planting Season: Late autumn through winter while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Deep soil preferred, tolerant of clay and periodic wetness, and best on slightly acidic to neutral ground since alkaline soils can trigger leaf yellowing
Establishment Care: Water deeply once or twice a week through the first three summers, as maples suffer badly from drought stress while young and will scorch at the leaf margins. Mulch a wide ring at 75mm depth kept clear of the trunk, and formative prune in early winter to maintain a single leader.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 15m in Australian conditions
Width: 6 to 8m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Garden hybrid, with both parent species native to eastern North America
Flower Colour: Small red flowers in late winter to early spring, of minor ornamental value
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







