RED MAPLES: These trees (Acer rubrum) are native across the eastern U.S., including the Northeast, where they turn such beautiful colors. The Drummond or swamp red maple, Acer rubrum var.
The bark on young trees is smooth and light gray, and darker and scaly on older trees. Silver maple, which is commonly found in swamps and overflow bottomlands, is one of Indiana’s soft maples ...
Large limbs are dying in several of my 15-year-old trees. I understand others are seeing the same red maple issues. As they decline, I am replacing them with native black gum (Nyssa sylvatica ...
When you live a long time with trees, they become a part of you. So it pained me to take down the old sugar maple, my arboreal ... longer that colorful array of red, yellow and orange leaves ...
Japanese maple trees are at their most beautiful in autumn due to their rich red and orange leaves - and are extremely easy to care for as long as you know the best time to prune them.
Blazing red maple trees and mustard-yellow ginkgo leaves can be found around the Kumogata-ike pond, which features a beautiful fountain inspired by the crane, the Japanese symbol for good luck.
Photo by Simon Berger The star of the show is also one of the earliest changers, the maple tree. With their broad, hand-sized leaf and a color range including brilliant reds and oranges ...
Sugar-makers rely on a “freeze and thaw cycle” to tap the maple trees. Sap flows when temperatures ... and one gallon of syrup from a red maple requires 65-80 gallons of sap.
Then again, young women used maple trees for divination. This curious practice is referenced in the lyrics of an old Polish folk song: Like maples, spruces were also considered helpful in predicting ...