Days decrease
and autumn grows,
autumn in everything.
...Robert Browning
These are our two maple trees that were planted about 25 years ago. The Sacramento Tree Foundation was offering free trees to provide shade and reduce our electric bill.
They were small saplings when we received them. and We had a choice of trees and requested red maples. According to the leaf shape, these may be sugar maples. The leaves mostly turn shades of yellow, with touches of red and orange.
This photo was taken 10 days ago. The lawn was raked just raked and it is already covered with leaves again.
I was doing some research and found that sugar maples have clear sap and Norway maples have white sap. It is confusing because I think our trees have white sap and the bark looks like a Norway but the leaves match a sugar maple. Haha! So confusing. I will look closer tomorrow.
Those are two amazing trees! They have grown so well in 25 years! Yes, Carolyn and I requested a sugar maple from the city 25 years ago as well. We were given a Freeman's maple (Who had ever heard of this kind of maple? It turns out that it's a hybrid of a silver maple and a red maple). Anyhow, I share your frustration, Cathee, but whatever they are, they are sturdy lovelies! Fav
@365projectorgheatherb Thank you, Heather! They have been easy and great trees so far. I have learned, if possible to never buy a tree unless it is either in bloom or the season of color you are looking for. The same thing happened with a crape myrtle in the backyard (wrong color) and also our magnolia tree, although I do love our magnolia! I wanted it to match our first magnolia we planted called a saucer magnolia but we got an Anne Magnolia. The saucer magnolia has since died. And...luckily our backyard neighbor has several red maples so I can enjoy the color from our back windows.
Ian