• Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple
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Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple

Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple

The Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple is a distinctive ornamental tree admired for its elegant, cascading branches and deeply cut burgundy-red leaves.

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Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple Treebute

Graceful Cascading Beauty for Lasting Remembrance

The Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple offers finely cut, lace like leaves that emerge deep purple in spring, hold a rich red through summer, and turn brilliant crimson in autumn. Its branches arch and cascade into a flowing, layered form. Long admired for grace and quiet strength, this small weeping maple becomes a living memorial you can nurture and watch grow.

Each Treebute is a complete memorial tree kit designed to be planted at home, a hands-on ritual that many people find grounding and emotionally healing. The act of planting gives your hands something purposeful to do and creates meaning, creating a living connection to the one you love.

Why You'll Love the Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple

  • Striking Color Progression: Deep purple spring foliage transitions to vivid red, ending in bright crimson fall color, creating a striking focal point that remains memorable throughout the growing season.
  • Elegant Cascading Form: Its naturally arching branches create a graceful silhouette that brings beauty, softness, and visual comfort to outdoor spaces.
  • At Home in a Pot or in the Ground: its compact, cascading form suits a container, a patio, or a sheltered garden spot, and it can move with you wherever life leads. Cold hardy to temperatures down to -20°F
  • Forgiving and Low-Maintenance: One of the hardier weeping maples, with stronger branches than most laceleaf varieties. With the right light and steady watering, it rewards even first time growers.

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.

Each Treebute Kit Includes

✓ 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 indoor or patio planting)
○ Treebute® cremation-safe organic soil blend (for ashes, if and when you're ready)

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

One thoughtfully packaged kit. Everything arrives together, ready to plant.

Nurturing Your Memorial Tree

Even if you're new to planting, Inaba Shidare Japanese Maples are rewarding trees that thrive with attentive but straightforward care.

  • Light: Prefers a location with morning sun and some protection from intense afternoon heat.
  • Water: Keep soil consistently moist, especially while the tree is becoming established.
  • That's it: A sheltered location and regular watering are often all that's needed to help your tree flourish.

Each moment caring for your tree becomes a quiet act of remembrance.

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.

A Living Memorial That Grows With You

Finding a meaningful way to honor the one you love can feel overwhelming. An Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple Treebute offers something different, a living expression of love that grows stronger with time. 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.

Plant Specifications:

Bloom Time:
Spring
Botanical Name:
Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Inaba-shidare'
Growth Rate Value:
Fast
Mature Height Value:
6-10 ft.
Mature Width Value:
8-15 ft.
Sunlight Value:
Full-Part Sun
Does Not Ship To:
AZ, OR
Growing Zones:
5-9 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 significant dates: a birthday, an anniversary, or simply when the acute grief lifts a little. The tree waits for them.

Is a Treebute Kit a good sympathy gift to send someone?

Yes. A living tree is a meaningful alternative to flowers that fade. It arrives ready to plant with a personalized message, so the person you are thinking of receives a tribute they can plant, tend, and watch grow.

What is included in a Treebute Kit?

Each kit includes a young, healthy Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple, a step by step planting and watering care guide, and a personalized memorial message. Everything arrives together in one kit, ready to plant. You can also add an optional planter, premium potting mix, or our cremation safe soil blend.

Can I grow the Inaba Shidare in a container or indoors?

The Inaba Shidare grows beautifully in a container on a patio or in the ground, and its compact, cascading form is well suited to pots. It is a deciduous tree that rests in winter and needs the natural turn of the seasons, so it is happiest outdoors rather than kept fully indoors.

How big does the Inaba Shidare get, and how long will it live?

The Inaba Shidare is a slow growing, small weeping maple. It commonly reaches about 6 to 10 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide at maturity, developing its graceful umbrella shape over many years. With good care it can flourish for decades.

Can I plant a memorial tree with cremation ashes?

Yes. Your kit offers the option to add our Treebute organic soil blend, formulated to mix safely with cremation ashes and offset their naturally high pH and sodium. Because this maple prefers slightly acidic soil, the blend is especially helpful here. It works for a person's or a pet's ashes.

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.