I have a maple tree purchased at a local nursery that is something along the lines of an autumn blaze cultivar. I’ve noticed over the past two years that one ...

There's a poetic name for the phenomenon of winter leaf retention in trees, "marcescence." This word comes from the Latin verb "to shrivel." And shrivel these leaves do, but fall they don't.

Q: I’d like to plant a tree this fall in an area that was formerly a gravel driveway. The gravel goes down about 8 inches. The clay-ey soil beneath it doesn’t seem terribly compacted.

Trees must reach a certain size before they are ready to tap, no smaller than 10-12 inches in diameter at chest height. Syrup makers usually use one tap for trees 12 to 18 inches in diameter, two ...

Maple syrup production, for example, is highest in eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast, with Quebec producing about 8 million gallons a year, followed by Vermont at about 1 million gallons.

Maple syrup season is highly dependent on the weather and this winter is providing a head start.There is only a 4-to-6 ... There is only a 4-to-6-week window that tapping can happen on maple trees.

"We've over-planted maple trees here in the U.S., and because China has the largest number of maples in the world, I'm sure we'll see some pest enter the U.S. in the next 20-30 years that will ...

This year’s record-warm winter has thrown the family practice for a loop, though. The company tapped its thousands of maple trees on Jan. 22 — 22 days earlier than ever before — to endure ...

ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Songs of spring differ by region, but in Amy Perkins' neighborhood, the music of tree sap hitting metal buckets fills the air. "My first year I collected 115 gallons of sap ...

PETOSKEY — While Michiganders are putting their winter coats away, maple sugarbushes in the region are collecting from their trees. At Maple Moon Sugarbush and Winery in Petoskey, the 20 acres ...

Winter is the best time to prune your Japanese maple, but let December be your cutoff point for cutting. Trimming branches later than the end of the month can lead to sap bleeding.

Our maple, no record-holder, is smaller, about 90 feet tall with a 70-foot canopy, but still of a size one doesn’t see every day. I can stand underneath the tree in the rain and barely get wet.