Fast-growing trees help fill your landscape and add shade quickly. This Japanese maple tree variety is particularly gorgeous ...

One reason sugar maples are the most commonly tapped trees is their sap has a high sugar content compared to most trees — as much as 3 percent; most other tree sap is only 1 percent sugar.

If the tree is tapped properly, that sap can be collected as it moves up the trunk. The science is pretty simple — but also pretty specific. “Maple sap is collected when the daytime ...

While all maple trees produce sap, the most fruitful is the sugar maple. These magnificent trees can grow as tall as 80 feet with wide, majestic canopies or crowns.

Just a few of the maple products on sale at Jefferson's Buck Hill Farm. Sharon Collins checks the tap on a sugar maple she planted 18 years ago when her son Sam was born.

Anthracnose, a fungal disease affecting maple trees, is prevalent in Greater Columbus due to the cool, wet spring. The disease causes brown leaf spots, curling leaves and premature leaf drop, but ...

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Bruce Hopper's son, Brennan, 29, pours sap from a sugar maple tree in a neighbor’s front yard into a 5-gallon plastic bucket. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff ...

Dining & Food Local sugar houses welcome spring with a Maple Weekend By Kathleen D. Bailey Special to the Union Leader Mar 13, 2024 Updated Apr 18, 2025 3 min to read ...

Craig Staebner demonstrates tree-tapping at a maple sugaring event at Blue Slope Country Museum on March 5. At far left is Kim McLean, a member of The Last Green Valley, a local Girl Scout leader ...

Sugar maples attract 297 species of butterflies and moths, providing a source of food for baby birds and other insect-eating birds. The two-winged seeds, known as samaras, are eaten by wildlife.

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

A beloved sugar maple tree at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park is slowly dying and will be cut down to make way for new trees next spring. The tree, estimated to be 100 years ...