Job's Nursery and Pumpkin Patch LLC

Helping Tri-City Gardeners Grow Since 1940!

Job's Nursery LLC is a family owned nursery and tree farm that offers a wide selection of outdoor plants that are hardy for our area. We are located just north of Pasco on Columbia River Road.  It's a short trip to a beautiful location to escape the hustle and bustle of your everyday life.

 

 

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Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers

Acer ginnala 'Ruby Slippers'

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Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers (Acer ginnala 'Ruby Slippers') at Job's Nursery

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers fruit

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers fruit

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Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers (Acer ginnala 'Ruby Slippers') at Job's Nursery

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers

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Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers (Acer ginnala 'Ruby Slippers') at Job's Nursery

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers in fall

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers in fall

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Height:  20 feet

Spread:  20 feet

Sunlight:  full sun  partial shade 

Hardiness Zone:  3a

Description:

A spectacular choice for its reliable blazing red-orange fall color and bright red fruits that appear in early summer and persist until fall; this is a shapely small tree that is very hardy and adaptable; great as a fall accent in smaller home landscapes

Ornamental Features

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers is primarily grown for its highly ornamental fruit. It features abundant showy scarlet samaras in early summer. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The lobed leaves turn outstanding shades of orange and red in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • Accent
  • Mass Planting
  • Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Maple, (Amur) Ruby Slippers will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a high canopy with a typical clearance of 6 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. As it matures, the lower branches of this tree can be strategically removed to create a high enough canopy to support unobstructed human traffic underneath. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 60 years or more.

This tree does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. This plant should be periodically fertilized throughout the active growing season with a specially-formulated acidic fertilizer. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

 
 
Hardiness Zone Plant Height Minimum Sunlight
Characteristics
Accent  Massing  Screening 
Applications
Fruit  Fall Color 
Ornamental Features