Landscape Uses Arborists recommend this tree over the silver maple and other soft maple species when a fast growing maple is needed because it is a relatively tidy, well-shaped tree with a root ...

Q: I have a maple tree at my summer home that has a large area of bark missing and the underlying wood is soft. The tree is alive, but I am concerned about the "open wound." This started about two ...

If you're looking to add a gorgeous tree with dazzling fall colors to your yard or garden, consider planting one of these 12 cultivars of Japanese maple trees.

The five most common maple trees are red maple, sugar maple, silver maple, boxelder, and bigleaf. Learn how to identify each of these fascinating species.

Soft (red) and silver maple have similar bark, but the twigs of silver maple smell rank when broken. All our native dogwoods are shrubs, which leaves maple and ash as ther sole members of the ...

Last August, a huge soft maple had to be taken down on my property. It was a beautiful tree but had grown to be structurally unsound and the fear was a storm could dash into my home.

It’s a handsome tree with a leaf similar to that of the distantly related sugar maple, but without the shaggy bark seen in the other three species.

The thin bark of the maple is fragile and young trees must be protected during the winter to prevent sunscald and frost cracks, particularly when planted in sunny locations.

The bark is gray and smooth in young trees and may become flaky in older trees. Red maple, which is a popular ornamental and street tree selection, is one of Indiana’s soft maples alongside silver ...

Hearing about unsafe drinking water brought on by recent flooding was one of the prompts for bringing up the subject of tapping maple trees. Another reason was that following some cold winter ...

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 ...