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Scarlet Sentinel Maple
Acer x freemanii ‘Scarsen’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 430mm 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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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Scarlet Sentinel Maple - Acer x freemanii ‘Scarsen’
Freeman maples cross the silver maple with the red maple, taking the speed and soil tolerance of one and the autumn colour of the other. ‘Scarsen’, sold as Scarlet Sentinel, is the upright broadly columnar selection: it grows quickly to a well-formed oval crown that is tall relative to its width, then colours in yellow, orange and scarlet through autumn. Acer x freemanii handles a wider range of soils than sugar maple does, which is why it appears in Australian street tree and avenue specifications.
Why Scarlet Sentinel
Upright Crown: A tall oval to broadly columnar habit that suits narrower verges and driveways where a spreading maple will not fit.
Autumn Display: Reliable yellow to orange and scarlet colouring, strongest where autumn nights are genuinely cold.
Growth Speed: Establishes and puts on height quickly for a maple, so a young planting looks like an avenue sooner.
Soil Tolerance: Accepts a broader range of soils and moisture levels than most ornamental maples.
Clean Summer Foliage: Deeply lobed mid green leaves with pale undersides that flash in wind.
Ideal Applications
Formal Avenue: Repeated along a drive or road reserve for a uniform upright rhythm and matched autumn colour.
Narrow Verge Street Tree: The upright form keeps the canopy off adjacent buildings and traffic.
Lawn Specimen: A single tree gives strong autumn colour without the wide spread of a Japanese maple grown large.
Deciduous Shade Screen: Rows planted to the west of a building shade in summer and admit winter sun.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 7 to 9m
Best Planting Season: Winter while dormant, or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moisture-retentive, free-draining soil, slightly acidic to neutral; strongly alkaline soils cause yellowing between the leaf veins
Establishment Care: Water deeply and regularly through the first three summers, because maples stressed by dry heat scorch at the leaf margins and drop early. Mulch out to the drip line, keep turf away from the base, and formative prune in late winter to maintain a single dominant leader.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 13m
Width: 5 to 7m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Garden hybrid; both parent species are native to eastern North America
Flower Colour: Red, small and inconspicuous in early spring
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.







