Red maple or Acer rubrum is one of the 10 best trees you can plant in your yard. ... The beginning of leaf buds, red flowers, and unfolding fruits indicate that spring has arrived.

Collecting branches to force indoors. For most spring-flowering trees and shrubs, forcing can be done as soon as the buds on the branches begin to swell in late winter.

Red maple (Acer rubrum) flowers before its leaf buds break. Some trees bear only male flowers like the ones above, producing no seeds, some only female flowers, and some are monoecious, bearing both.

Flower buds are usually larger and fatter than foliar buds — branches with large flower buds will bloom more quickly when forced. If you’re pruning branches just for forcing, ...

Anthracnose is a common spring disease on maple trees. Several different fungi can cause the symptoms we describe as anthracnose.

Red maple twigs are red toward the end and their buds are rounded at the tip. Trees must reach a certain size before they are ready to tap, no smaller than 10-12 inches in diameter at chest height.

Have you noticed discoloration on your maple tree leaves this year? You aren't the only one. Here's what you should know ...

The porcupine, bored of its normal winter food, had been exploring and had found a tree full of nice, fresh flower buds. Although this required that the fairly sizeable mammal climb up into the ...