Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots. When spring is near, the sap begins to move from the roots up the trunk and stem. This provides ...

and Japanese maple trees are no exception. Because they're deciduous trees, they need the natural cool period of dormancy in the winter as well as the gradual spring warming to tell them when it's ...

People who say they don’t like maple trees invariably like ... inch incision along the stem and through a bud to create a wedge; prop the wedge open with a sliver of wood such as a toothpick.