ACER palm Butterfly Doorstop Slow growing and hardy it

Slow growing and hardy it can reach 2metres or so high and wide

Full Sun/Partial Shade

grouped or planted as a specimen in a small garden

Off white small flowers in summer make way for colourful berries in winter

ACER palm Butterfly Doorstop Slow growing and hardy itAcer palmatum 'Butterfly is a Japanese maple which makes a superb small tree. The delicate divided foliage is light green, flecked with cream, but also often has pink tinged edges in spring when it first emerges. In the autumn it displays bright scarlet and orange shades shortly before the leaves fall for the winter. It loves a moist but well drained soil, in dappled or full shade in quite a wide range of soil types, but prefers soils in the acid to