Japanese maples, Acer palmatum, are popular, highly ornamental trees that add value and lustrous color to your landscape. Considered low maintenance, they grow well in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 ...

Japanese maple trees (Acer palmatum) add interest to your landscape all year long. Their delicate palmate leaves form a lace-like canopy in vibrant shades of green, bronze, red, orange, and purple ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Here's how to plant a Japanese maple tree and keep it thriving for years to come. From an aesthetic point of view, Japanese maples have a distinctive architectural beauty year-round but especially ...

St. Joseph County, Ind. (WSBT) — Maple syrup season is highly dependent on the weather and this winter is providing a head start. There is only a 4-to-6-week window that tapping can happen on maple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quite a few of my friends have been grumbling about how they can’t wait for winter to be over and that they are ready for spring.