Add elegant vertical color to your landscape with Acer palmatum ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinel’, a stunning columnar Japanese Maple prized for its narrow upright form and rich red foliage. This unique ornamental tree emerges in spring with bright red leaves that deepen into rich maroon tones through summer before transforming into vivid electric red in autumn.

Its slim profile makes it an ideal choice for small gardens, walkways, patios, borders, foundation plantings, and narrow landscape spaces where traditional spreading trees may not fit. Graceful and easy to maintain, ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinel’ provides bold year-round structure and vibrant seasonal color while taking up minimal space. You will receive a healthy plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Acer palmatum ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinel’ tree
✔️ Height: approximately 18–24 inches tall
✔️ Grown in #1 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted Japanese Maple
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Twombly’s Red Sentinel Japanese Maple
• Botanical Name: Acer palmatum ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinel’
• Plant Type: Deciduous ornamental tree
• Growth Stage: Young container-grown tree
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Moist, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
• Mature Height: Approximately 8–10 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 3 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 5–9
• Container Friendly: Yes when young

Care Tip

Provide afternoon shade in hotter climates to help preserve rich foliage color and reduce leaf scorch. Mulching around the root zone helps maintain moisture and healthy root development.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.