• A fiery red Autumn Blaze maple memorial tree planted in a loved ones memory lines a residential street next to a sidewalk
  • Close up of the lobed red leaves and bark of an Autumn Blaze maple memorial tree gift.
  • Tree planted in someone's honor with vibrant red leaves against a clear blue sky
  • Hands holding a small amount of soil intended for a special memorial planting against a neutral background
  • Treebute organic soil blend package next to a tree used to memoralize a loved one's cremation ashes into a living tribute
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Autumn Blaze® Red Maple Tree

Autumn Blaze® Red Maple Tree

The Autumn Blaze® Red Maple is known for its vibrant fall color and strong, graceful form. A cross between the Silver Maple and the Red Maple, this hybrid brings together beauty and resilience. With its fiery red-orange leaves and steady growth, it’s a powerful symbol of love that endures and memories that live on.

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Autumn Blaze® Red Maple Treebute

A Living Tribute of Strength and Renewal

The Autumn Blaze® Red Maple features broad, deeply lobed leaves that turn from green to brilliant red and orange each fall. Strong, resilient, and beautiful year after year, it serves as a living memorial that grows with the seasons.

Each Treebute is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home, a hands-on ritual that many people find grounding and healing.

The act of planting gives your hands something purposeful to do and creates meaning, forming a living connection that continues to grow.


What Happens After You Order

Step 1

Your tree is prepared and shipped with care from our nursery.

Step 2

Your kit arrives ready to plant, with your healthy tree, care guide, and personalized memorial message.

Step 3

Follow the simple steps to plant your living memorial, whenever the time feels right.

Step 4

Care for your tree, and watch it grow over the years.


Why You'll Love the Autumn Blaze® Red Maple 

  • Brilliant Fall Color: Each autumn, the canopy transforms into a brilliant display of orange-red and crimson hues that last for weeks - a living reminder that beauty can emerge from change.
  • Lives for Generations: With proper care, Autumn Blaze Maples can live 80 to 100 years - a memorial that can be enjoyed by children, grandchildren, and generations to come.
  • Strong & Resilient: It adapts to a wide range of soils and tolerates drought once established - forgiving for first-time tree parents.


A Living Memorial That Grows With You

Finding a meaningful way to honor someone you love can feel overwhelming. A Treebute tree offers something different, a living expression of love that grows stronger each year. It gives your hands something to do and your heart something to hold.

The act of planting creates meaning. The growth creates hope. The tree creates a place to remember.

What Comes With Your Treebute Kit
  • Hardy tribute tree (size you select)
  • Step-by-step planting & watering care guide
  • Personalized memorial message

Optional Add-Ons (Customize Your Treebute Kit)

  • Planter (choose your style & size)
  • Premium potting mix (for patio planting)
  • Cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if/when you're ready)

Many customers plant without ashes - and that's just as meaningful.

Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Nurturing Your Memorial Tribute

Even if you're new to planting, Autumn Blaze® Red Maple is hardy, forgiving, and rewarding with simple care.

  • Light: Full sun, with at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for the fullest, most vivid fall color.
  • Water: Water regularly during the first two to three years while roots establish. Once established, this maple is drought tolerant and needs only occasional watering during extended dry spells.
  • Space: Allow 20 to 40 feet of clearance for mature growth. This is a fast growing tree that will fill out its space within a decade or two.

That's it: This tree is remarkably resilient and adapts to most soil types. It practically thrives on benign neglect once its roots take hold.

Optional: Plant with Cremation Ashes - The Treebute® Difference

For those wishing to incorporate cremation ashes, your kit includes the option to add our Treebute® organic soil blend. This specially formulated mixture creates a safe, nurturing foundation for your tree - transforming ashes into living growth.

Your tree is meaningful with or without ashes - this is simply another way to honor someone you love.

Plant Specifications:

Botanical Name:
Acer x freemanii ‘Jeffersred’
Growth Rate Value:
Fast
Mature Height Value:
40-55 ft.
Mature Width Value:
30-40 ft.
Sunlight Value:
Full Sun
Does Not Ship To:
AK, AZ, HI, OR
Growing Zones:
4-10 outdoors

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What if they're not ready to plant right away?

The kit includes simple instructions to care for your tree until planting time. Many customers plant on a significant date, a birthday, an anniversary, or another day that feels right.

Do I need ashes to use a Treebute Kit?

No. Treebute Kits work beautifully as living memorials without cremation ashes. The cremation-safe soil is an optional add-on for those who want to incorporate ashes. Your tree is meaningful either way.

What's included in a Treebute order?

Each Treebute order includes a young, healthy Autumn Blaze Maple tree; a step-by-step planting & watering care guide; and a personalized memorial message. One thoughtfully packaged kit - everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Take the guesswork out of sympathy giving. A memorial tree is universally meaningful, so you can't get it wrong.

Can I plant a memorial tree with cremation ashes?

Yes. Treebute orders offer the option to add Treebute® organic soil blend, specially formulated to safely mix with cremation ashes and offset the naturally high pH and sodium level, creating a nurturing foundation for tree growth. Your tree is meaningful either way.

How big does the Autumn Blaze Maple get?

At maturity (15–20 years), the Autumn Blaze Maple typically reaches 40–50 feet tall with a spread of 30–40 feet. It's a fast-growing tree, adding 3–5 feet per year under good conditions.

Is this easy to care for? We're not experienced gardeners.

Yes. The Autumn Blaze Maple is exceptionally beginner-friendly. It's drought-tolerant once established, adapts to most soil types, resists pests and disease, and requires minimal maintenance. Many people find it one of the most forgiving trees to grow.

Can I plant ashes without any special soil treatment?

We strongly advise against it and doing so will void the Warranty. Planting cremation ashes directly with a tree, without proper treatment, can stress or even kill the plant. The high sodium and pH levels create conditions that are hostile to root development. If you want your memorial tree to thrive for years to come, using the Treebute Organic Soil Blend is essential when incorporating ashes.

What makes Treebute different from other memorial tree options?

Treebute is designed to be planted at home, in your own yard, patio, or indoor space. Unlike distant memorial forests where a tree is planted somewhere you may never visit, a Treebute grows right where you can see it. It becomes a gentle, living presence in your daily life.

Every kit includes a healthy tree of your choice, clear planting and care instructions, and the option to add scientifically formulated soil for safe ash incorporation. And our team understands that every memorial is deeply personal.

How is this different from having a tree planted in a forest?

Forest donation programs plant something far away and send a card. A Treebute Kit delivers a real, living plant to your door, or to your recipient's door, so it can be planted and tended at home and seen every day. It becomes part of daily life, not a distant certificate.