Keep your maples healthy & hearty by learning to recognize common maple tree diseases & knowing how to prevent or treat them ...

For U.S. Army veteran Mitchell Hoyt, a sugar maple tree in all its fall glory is much more than mere eye candy. For Hoyt, producer of Skinny Sticks’ handcrafted pure maple syrup, it goes beyond ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form.

Don't get your hopes up for syrup soon after planting a sugar maple. The tree must be 40-50 years old before tapping it for sap.

Many of us imagine a frigid New England forest when we get a whiff of maple syrup, but urban sugar makers are tapping trees much closer to home.

This tree thrives in sun or part shade, and will tolerate acidic or alkaline soil, as long as it is well-drained. Considered among the best shade trees for the backyard, the sugar maple can also ...

Since 2006, Jeff and Paula Babel have been producing award-winning maple syrup and have loyal customers, some as far away as Germany and the Netherlands.

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.

For years, people stopped to stare at the sugar maple tree in its fall glory in Sandra Peters’ front yard. Now, the tree towers above passing cars as a sculpture of two nature gods, with hands ...

Many people travel to New England in October to see the wonderful fall color in the deciduous forests. A large proportion of the color is provided by maples, including the sugar maple, red maple ...

In fall, cooler air stops this production which leads to other colors appearing in the leaves before they fall. Sugar maple and red maple trees are very common in Indiana.

Controlling maple petiole borer is difficult and generally unnecessary. Although leaf drop may at times be large enough to cause concern, rarely does more than 25% of the tree’s leaves fall.