Speaking of nutz Acorns are very abundant this year.
Garden Photos - Part 39
Sure that's a Norway, Robin? They don't usually color that nicely. Usually only yellow. Sugar is more likely.
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Allison/Victor, I was going to suggest bow and arrow, too, but Celeste beat me to it.
And Norways usually turn very late in the season. Last year they were looking great around Thanksgiving.
Karen
Might even be a Silver Maple. I have a Silver Maple in my backyard.
Here is a comparison between Silver and Sugar Maple leaves.
Don't think so - it's too rounded and not spiky like silver, which I have also. And my silver too never gets color like that. Usually a dull yellow like your photo. Never orange.
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I have no idea what maples we have, one in our yard and a different one in the neighbors, neither get nice color.
Mine just changes to yellow, like in the sample leaf posted.
Yes .... the leaves in question do not appear spikey like the silver.
My silver maple is a Memory Tree for my sister who passed a long time ago from Leukemia at age 5, before I was born. One of my father's construction buddies from work was a skilled portraitist and painted a photo taken of her playing under the silver maple. Actually, there are two paintings of Karen by him.
I had always hoped it was a sugar maple and I could tap it for syrup. Not sure silver maples are as good for that.
Gee--I bought that tree as a Norway--actually bought 3 & that's the only 1 left. It certainly is as invasive as a Norway---I pull maple seedlings out of every garden! One day my DH yelled for me to come out & see what our DS & his buddies had done---there were rows of circular holes all around the trunk--he thought it was BB gun damage---it was sapsucker damage! Daisy chrysanth by roadside.
Poor Norway Maple was Weed of the Week in Nov. '04 :-(
Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry - USDA Forest Service
Norway maple Acer platanoides L.
Native Origin: Europe and Western Asia
Description: A deciduous tree in the maple family (Aceraceae) growing 40-60 feet in height, but can reach heights of 100 feet with dense foliage, broad-rounded crown, and stout stems. The bark of the tree is grayish and shallowly grooved or furrowed. Palmate leaves are opposite, simple, and 10-18 cm across with 5 to 7 sharply pointed lobes. The glossy dark green leaves develop into yellow fall foliage. Leaves often have hairs in axils of veins and a milky sap can be observed when petiole is removed. In spring (April and May), showy clusters of flowers develop before leaves open. The yellow or greenish-yellow flowers are approximately 8 mm in diameter.
Fruits mature during summer into wide-spreading wings that look like helicopter blades which split down the middle, releasing each half to the wind. Norway maple can be confused with many maple species, especially sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Milky white sap that oozes out of leaf veins and stalks when broken can help distinguish them from native maples. Also bud tips of sugar maple are pointy and sharp to the touch, while those of Norway maple are more rounded and not sharp to the touch.
Here's their PDF:
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/norway-maple.pdf
Thanks for the info on Norway maple, Willie.
Robin, all maples seed themselves in readily. Norway maple is considered an invasive alien, as it's not native and will crowd out native species. They are a beautiful tree, but shouldn't be planted. As far as I know it is now illegal in MA to import, sell, or propagate Norway maples. Those beautiful ones with the dark purple foliage produce seedlings that have green foliage. Here is a pic I took of a gorgeous Norway maple in Plympton, MA last November on Thanksgiving day.
Karen
Here's a closer shot of it with the old house that is stands in front of.
Here are more Norway maples taken in Plymouth, MA last year.
pretty shots
I can't stand them but this was just so darn cute. Little junior decided to take a nap on my deck.
close up
cute but I'm planting bulbs now.
Nice to see the enemy close up.
Went to the fall plant sale at Clark Botanic Garden today. Picked up a couple of these Japanese Anemones 'Bressingham Glow'
Ooooh--love the anemone, as well as photos of the maple--squirrel, too! Thanks, Willie, for the info on the Norway maples--I'll check to see if there's milky sap--but would it be running this time of year, or only in spring? Here is the only scabious that bloomed--I planted them in May, but all I got was foliage!
Just checked on the sap--none--but the leaves did have from 5 to 7 points on them, so I'll have to guess it is a Norway, and lack of sap is due to leaves already detatching from twigs. But it is certainly orange! And late--the Norway is the latest to change colors, & this color is only on part of the tree. This is why I love nature!
cute Jen... that would be a cause of panic with my two pups... LOL
Flowerjen, that napping squirrel really is cute. My Patches wouldn't let him stay long!
Karen
Dyane I love your 'Bressingham Glow'!
Speaking of "GLOW" has anyone seen the new Buddleia Bush with the yellow leaves?? It's called 'Santana' http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?storeId=10101&catalogId=10101&langId=-1&mainPage=prod2working&ItemId=48508&PrevMainPage=null&OfferCode=VH1&scChannel=prod2working
I found it in PF so it's not all that new I guess!
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Wow - that really stands out. Wonder if it seeds itself all over.
Thanks, pixie. I love that Buddleia. I wish I had room for another. I already have two growing now and one needs to be transplanted because it's too shady where it is now. I have more shade than sun on my property.
I suffer with that too Dyane. I wish I had more full sun spots!
Oxydendrum.
Heptacodium calyxes reaching their peak.
Callicarpa.
Geranium Rozanne.
Shasta viburnum.
Autumn Joy under the bird feeder.
Cephalanthus Sputnik.
Yarrow still going.
Miscanthus giganteum.
Last - Boston ivy bronzing up.
Same miscanthus - later in the day.
Reflection of Callicarpa in the pond.
Mophead.
