Silver Maple Volunteer Seeding Gains Five Feet of New Growth This Summer - August 2023
We might have a problem in the garden. Or, we might have something else totally. I'm talking about the volunteer Silver Maple tree that popped up last season and one that I have left alone all this year. Has it grown? Yeah. It.has.grown. A LOT. I last posted about this tree in mid-July (about 50 days ago) and it has not slowed down since then. I mentioned in that post that I was guessing it had put on 3' of new growth this year. Now? I'd say it is more like five feet of new growth. It is every bit as tall as the Exclamation London Planetrees that sit by the fence . Below, is a look at the current state of this (questionable-in-value) tree that is in our south beds: I didn't plan for this tree. And...I've read all about the merits of Silver Maples. Naturalist Donald Peattie wrote an length about the Silver Maple and called it a paradox . Both the pros - fast-growing, beautiful crowns and ability to grow in hard-to-grow spots and their cons - it gets