Japanese maples, Acer palmatum, are popular, highly ornamental trees that add value and lustrous color to your landscape. Considered low maintenance, they grow well in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 ...

Japanese maple trees (Acer palmatum) add interest to your landscape all year long. Their delicate palmate leaves form a lace-like canopy in vibrant shades of green, bronze, red, orange, and purple ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of an unspecified Japanese maple seed pod - Lois GoBe/Shutterstock Many home landscapers love the look of Japanese ...

Indigenous peoples taught European colonizers how to tap maple trees to make maple syrup. For this Menominee family, it's a ...

Vermonters’ near-cultlike reverence of maple syrup is part of who we are — not only in its consumption but its preparation ...

Brian Dunham pours maple syrup into a filter while boiling sap March 11 at Velvet Hollow Sugar Works in Greenwood. Dunham ...

The modern homesteaders behind Gold Shaw Farm demonstrate a lesser-known winter technique for tapping maple trees.

Maple syrup has long been the lifeblood of Virginia’s Highland County. This year, a brutal ice storm and recent warmth ...

Maple syrup season brings with it a sweet release of sap, which is a vital source of food for many animals, including the yellow-bellied sapsucker, ruby-throated hummingbird, and various mammals, as ...