Deciduous and coniferous trees vary in many more ways than only leaf types. Learn these differences and you'll know which ...

Several years ago I built a ring with decorative stone blocks around a mature silver maple in my backyard. It has a radius of about 4 feet. I filled it with 7 to 8 inches of soil. Now I want to rem… ...

For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I believe 100% of the cases to be on either silver maple (Acer saccharinum) or ...

Silver maple has a special place in my heart. It was one of the first trees I ever milled. (I would say it was my first, but my memory isn’t that good). It was a tree taken out by our neighbor ...

Or perhaps the scientific name – samaras -- for the silver maple seeds flying in yards this spring. Whatever you call them, some WCCO-TV viewers have reached out asking why so many are coming ...

Silver maple isn’t the only plant that encourages bees while also having a back-up plan. In addition to their charming, well-known blossoms, ...

We have a 35-year-old silver maple tree that looked pretty sick toward the end of last season. Half of the branches had no leaves or just a few at the tips. The remaining looked pretty good, but ...

The silver maple is sometime recommended and planted when a fast-growing shade tree is desired. But the silver maple tends to be short-lived in our area, ...

Pauline Bailey holds a silver maple tree that was planted Thursday in memory of Bailey’s daughter, Phylicia Thomas, who went missing in February 2004, presumed to be a victim of a homicide.