Acer 'Drummondii'

The Norway Maple tree offers a delightful light green leaf that creates a striking contrast against darker trees in a garden or park. The unique, variegated creamy borders around the leaf edges add to the unique look. The tree offers bursts of yellow flowers in spring. The deeply lobed leaves turn an attractive yellow and deep orange in autumn, creating a tree of interest all year round. Norway Maple is deciduous and will lose its leaves in winter.

The Norway Maple tree grows to a height of 6m, making it a great specimen tree for medium and larger sized gardens. It is fully hardy and can tolerate full sun and partial shade. Note that ongoing, heavy shade will affect the brightness of the leaf colour. It thrives well in moist, well drained sites and will grow in most types of soil. It also copes well with pollution.

Some variegated trees suffer from reversion. This means that a branch may start to grow without the variegation and the leaves will be plain green with no creamy borders. If you see this happening, simply prune off that branch. Apart from this, the tree does require any heavy pruning.

The Norway Maple can be used for screening purposes. It is also perfect for your larger garden with an ornamental picnic bench and table underneath.