Four attractive smaller-growing acers

Acer pensylvanicum ‘Erythrocladum’

Young growth is pink, which, with its striped, reddish-golden main trunk, really lifts a garden in midwinter. H/S: 6m (20ft).

Acer ‘White Tigress’

Often multi-stemmed with green trunks streaked bluegreen and white. Autumn foliage has orange and yellow tints. H/S: 6m (20ft).

Acer conspicuum ‘Phoenix’

Snakebark maple with red and silvery striped winter shoots and orange and silvery-white striped bark. H/S: 6m (20ft).

Acer griseum

Smooth, peeling, cinnamoncoloured bark, and green leaves that emerge coppery and mature to orange and red. H:10m(33ft),S:4m (13 ft ).