Red maple is one of the first trees to show off red flowers in the spring and displays a most magnificent scarlet fall color. Red maple is a fast grower without the bad habits of fast growers.

The trick to seeing tiny flowers in towering trees is finding branches not too far above eye level. If you can find a wild patch of woods in a park or refuge, there may be flowering saplings that ...

A tree swallow cavorted over the river, making long, graceful swoops. We heard Townsend’s warblers and an orange-crowned warbler, ... Female maple flowers have two fused ovaries, ...

Maple sap production, essential for syrup, varies based on factors like soil, sunlight, and temperature. Sustained cold weather, like the winter of 2024-25, benefits maple trees and their sap ...

Red maple also makes great syrup, however because it contains more water, it takes much more sap to produce that same 1 gallon of syrup, somewhere in the 60 to 80 gallon range.

Miraculously, I discovered a nursery that billed itself as a “Japanese maple tree farm,” only 20 miles from my house. I raced over the next day, and found more than 200 varieties of maples, ...