FARGO — I’ve received more questions about one plant than any other in recent memory. Those questions even outnumber inquiries about tomato blight and rhubarb. The subject of all the discussion is the ...

Q: The attached photo of the silver maple in our front yard was taken Dec. 17. The tree is 23 years old and has yet to drop the majority of its leaves. It normally is late to shed the leaves, but this ...

Autumn has always been bittersweet for me. The garden winds down – who am I kidding? – it droops, plops, falls over and goes boom, apparently terrified into fainting at the first frost. Tree leaves ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Greg Ilgenfritz and Melanie Bathe sit for an engagement portrait among the leaves of Autumn Blaze Maple trees just before sunset ...

* What it is: A shade tree that’s a cross of two maple species, combining the great fall color of our native red maple with the durability of silver maple. Autumn Blaze is a fast-grower that’s ...

Every time Mark Vitosh sees another 'Autumn Blaze' maple planted in the landscape, he gets slightly uneasy. Maples make up more than one third of all trees in Iowa communities, creating great risk of ...

It’s only August and the leaves of the “Autumn Blaze” maple (Acer x freemanii 'Jeffersred') at The Greenhouse Project are completely yellow. What’s going on? This maple is a hybrid of silver (Acer ...