Bring brilliant spring color and native beauty to your landscape with Red Buckeye, a stunning flowering shrub or small tree prized for its vibrant red blooms and wildlife-friendly appeal. In mid to late spring, upright clusters of tubular scarlet-red flowers emerge above lush green foliage, attracting hummingbirds, butterflies, and beneficial pollinators to the garden. Its naturally rounded growth habit makes it an excellent choice for woodland gardens, naturalized landscapes, pollinator gardens, and ornamental focal points.

Red Buckeye is highly adaptable and easy to grow, performing well as either a multi-stemmed shrub or trained small tree. Its deep green foliage provides attractive seasonal texture while its deer resistance and low-maintenance nature make it a dependable landscape favorite. These healthy plants are shipped established in 1 gallon nursery pots and are ready to thrive in the garden.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Red Buckeye plant
✔️ 1 gallon pot plant
✔️ Native flowering shrub or small tree
✔️ Hummingbird and pollinator friendly plant
✔️ Healthy, rooted landscape plant
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Red Buckeye
• Botanical Name: Aesculus pavia
• Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub or small tree
• Growth Stage: Established potted plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Moist, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; prefers consistent moisture during establishment
• Mature Height: Approximately 10–20 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 10–15 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 4–8
• Container Friendly: Yes, when young and properly maintained

Care Tip: Plant in a location with afternoon shade in hotter climates to help maintain lush foliage through summer. Mulching around the base helps conserve moisture and protect roots during seasonal heat.

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.