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Nursery Direct
Autumn Blaze Maple
Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level 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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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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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.
Autumn Blaze Maple - Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’
Autumn Blaze is a hybrid of red maple and silver maple, and it was selected because it delivers the vivid scarlet autumn colour of the first with the vigour and soil tolerance of the second. Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’ is the maple to specify when a client wants dependable autumn colour on a timeline, because it grows quickly into a symmetrical oval crown and colours reliably even in seasons that leave other maples a muddy yellow. It is a large tree and should be sited accordingly, well clear of paving and service trenches.
Why Autumn Blaze
Autumn Reliability: The display is a strong orange-scarlet and it happens consistently, which is not true of seedling-grown maples.
Growth Speed: Faster than most ornamental maples, so a planted specimen reaches useful canopy size within a handful of seasons.
Crown Symmetry: It builds an even, upright oval head with little corrective pruning.
Soil Range: It tolerates heavier and wetter ground than Japanese maples or sugar maple will accept.
Clean Summer Canopy: Deeply cut mid green leaves cast good shade and turn silver in a breeze.
Ideal Applications
Lawn shade tree: A single mature specimen shades an outdoor living area in summer and lets winter sun through.
Avenue planting: Repeated down a long driveway on a rural or acreage block it gives a dramatic autumn corridor.
Parkland and estate planting: Handles open, exposed situations and grows fast enough to make new landscapes look settled.
Deciduous canopy over a pool or terrace: Site it far enough back that leaf drop is manageable, and it gives seasonal shade control.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m, though it is a canopy tree rather than a screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 10m
Best Planting Season: Winter while dormant, or early spring in very cold districts
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moist, moderately fertile soil, tolerant of clay and seasonal damp, but avoid dry alkaline ground which triggers leaf yellowing
Establishment Care: Water deeply and infrequently through the first three summers to drive roots down, since shallow watering encourages surface roots that later lift paving. Mulch a wide ring, keep turf off the root plate, and stake only for the first year so the trunk can build taper.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 14m in Australian gardens
Width: 6 to 8m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: A cultivated hybrid of two North American maple species
Flower Colour: Small red flowers in late winter, ornamentally minor
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.







