A small tree with a very decorative bark (smooth, streaked with green and white) with lovely orangey-yellow autumn colours. Perfect for small gardens, isolated, as in flowerbeds.

Remarkable small tree or large shrub, domed with deeply cut palm shaped leaves of 7-15cm. Superb long-lasting red vermillion colours as early as August.

Shrub or small Japanese tree, ideal in cool locations. Beautiful autumn colouring of the 5 to 9 lobes palmated foliage. Prefers a not too chalky, rich, fresh and drained soil.

This vigorous shrub is easy to cultivate and has green leaves, lightly variegated pink and white, on the young shoots. Turns orangey-yellow, then red, in autumn.

A superb compact dwarf plant, with purpely leaves in spring and summer. The young leaves will appear bright purpely red at the start of spring and then again, and even brighter, in autumn.

This excellent Maple, with its finely cut leaves, will keep its purple-red colours even during the summer, whereas, other maples will have already gone copper-green.

Remarkable bright red young leaves in spring, a reddish-green colour in summer, turning orangey-red in autumn. Graceful little palmed leaves of 3-6cm with 7 narrow lobes.

The Japanese Maple 'Enkan' has beautiful and delicate leaves, relatively resistant to the sun. They are dark purple in spring, bronze in summer, becoming red in autumn.

Probably the best of the purple-leaved small Maples. The palmed leaves are bright red in spring and autumn, purple in summer.

Superb orangey young shoots, turning gold in summer, then orange-yellow in autumn. The edges of its leaves are often more brightly coloured, an added attraction to the whole.

Coming from the 'Bloodgood' variety, it is smaller and more compact. Erect bearing becoming rounder with age.

The light green leaves become a much darker green in summer, then after quite a long period will eventually turn a bright orangey-yellow colour in autumn.

Modest sized, but original and slender maple tree. The palmed leaves are delicate and long. Young leaves are a lively orangey red colour, turning green and then golden yellow in autumn.

As a large shrub or small tree, it is compact and vigorous with a rounded summit and elegant drooping branches.

A superb, compact and rounded shrub with delicate branches and leaves.

Weeping shape, vigorous, dense and bushy. Very thin, lacinate and deeply divided foliage that remains dark purple throughout the season, from 5 to 8 cm long with 5 to 7 lobes.

Vigorous and unusual shrub, larger than it is tall, semi-weeping in a mushroom form. Purple-red in spring and summer, turning scarlet red in autumn.

Remarkable round and palmed leaves of 8-12cm, cut out to a half with 7-11 oval lobes. Gold coloured from spring to autumn, sometimes edged in red or brown.