maple

I've just moved into a house with a beautiful maple tree. One of the branches has brown curled leaves and the bark on the tree doesn't look right but I'm no expert. Can anyone help identify what is wrong and offer advice on what to do. Thanks very much.

I have a maple VERY close to the house, This tree WAS hanging OVER my home, and I managed to have it trimmed all the way back. The other half is hanging the other way. I felt good for a while. Then people began telling me the root structure of these trees is VERY aggressive and could cause...

Hi. My Autumn Blaze Maple is weeping liquid from one branch. Should I be worried? It's coming out of it's second winter. Before it's first winter it lived up to it's name as the leaves were blazing red before falling. This winter it did not blaze red at all, and the leaves stayed on the tree...

Long time lurker, first time poster here. A 40-50 foot tree fell in the wooded area behind my house and I wanted to put it to good use. I’ve started to mill it with my chainsaw and the figure/grain inside is very interesting, but I’m having a hard time identifying it. The bark was rough at the...

Hi, My 15 year old Red Maple has developed a black coating on about 4 feet of its trunk, around where the first branches branch off. There are very small orange dots on the black part. I can scratch the black stuff off with my fingernail. Is this Gloomy Scale? Is there anything I can do? Thank...

Hi All, I have a maple tree in the front yard. It turned red last year (Pic1 attached). I had kept some stone around it as retaining wall this year and didnt dig in the ground or cut any roots. This year however the tree didnt turn red, the leaves have brown edges and are falling off pretty...

We have a 75’ tall silver maple shade tree that extends over our house and over the neighbor’s as well. Some say it’s a “junk tree”, brittle and dangerous. They say we should have it removed. I’ve had five tree guys out and only one thought it needed removing. Would you take it out or leave it...

Last year we had a tornado roll through it neighborhood. Fortunately only 2 trees on our property had damage. However one of the trees has a split down the main trunk. I've attached some pictures. Any suggestions for how to deal with this? I'd hate to cut down the tree eat this point and start over.

Hello I have a very old Maple tree on my property and it has a very very large Burl on the bottom which I believe is the more sought after type hence it is not due to injury I measured around it and it's about 26 ft in about 6 ft tall I'm going to harvest this tree and sell it and I'm looking...

Hello, We have a young maple tree in our backyard which has been growing taller for the last 2 years since first discovered as a sapling. My concerns are that there are multiple trunks and it's not shaped properly. Not knowing much about this, it seems it is in dire need of some pruning. I'm...

Hi - this maple looks terrible every year. I’ve tried fertilizer, nitrogen, phosphorus. Each year I hope for a better year but it just keeps getting worse. I’m about to cut it down and replace with a Tulip Poplar (I have another Tulip that has done really well). Before I do, is there any way to...

We moved to this home a year ago and have a lovely red maple in our front yard (zone 4, mid-Atlantic), but I discover the trunk is pretty open and wounded by some type of boring pest :/ (see pictures) Any ideas what did this and anything I could do to help this tree along? It’s still mostly...

Right now, I'm pretty amateur at identifying different types of trees and as it is Early Spring here in Northern Michigan, it is hard to identify tree types by their leaves, because there are none.. So I resort to identifying trees by their bark. From what I've seen - to me, this looks like some...

I had a pruning job for a customer with a Maple and several of the branches in the middle of the canopy had fungus on them that appears to cover the bark like I normally associate with dead branches that are well decaying, but these branches were all alive and the final few feet of most of them...

Had a call to look at a sick 'October Glory' Maple. Four of these trees were planted on a property in a large development about 5-7 year ago to replace Elms (or possibly Zelkovas) which weren't doing well. Two planted one year, two planted the next year. Main tree pictures are the worst of the...

Hello, I am curious as to how to create a hybrid maple tree and how long it typically takes to cultivate a hybrid. I believe this is a decades long pursuit, but I'm hoping it's not always. The two cultivars I have in mind are the laceleaf japanese maple and the paperbark maple. The desired...

Hi all, We are currently going through a massive ice rain storm / wind gusts in Ontario. On Monday, a major limb of my mature sugar maple tree in front of my house fell off. Thankfully, not on our house...! See picture there: https://imgur.com/a/BUR5P My question: Will the tree survive...

I was given a young maple tree. It is currently about 6 feet tall. I was told it might be a sugar maple, but I'm not so sure. I was hoping someone here could positively id it. I have several photos that I shared on Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/j2jTyMWmdYfzcDdf2 Thanks in...

Hi all, I have a tall mature sugar maple on my front yard. I found that its leaves turned orange/red earlier than the other trees in my neighbourhood (though other trees are not necessarily sugar maple, but some are definitely some kind of maple). Factors to take into consideration: - I...

Hello Everyone - I have a question regarding woodpeckers. I have a large Maple with a split trunk that was being attacked by a woodpecker this afternoon. I have always thought that this indicated insect infestation, rot, or disease. I'm wondering whether there is anything I can do to...