Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy a bare root red maple tree to plant in your yard, it'll usually look more like a skinny stick than a towering shade ...

Dear Neil: Do red maple seeds need to be scarified like the Texas mountain laurel seeds you described here a few weeks ago? A: No. Like most plants, their seed coats are not hard. Just plant them.

Q: Are there red maple trees that don’t produce the helicopter seeds? They are so profuse, and the seedlings are annoying to weed out of the yard. Yes, there are some options for seedless maples. Red ...

When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air—and can even spin when it's raining. Impacts by high-speed raindrops only ...

A: No. Like most plants, their seed coats are not hard. Just plant them. Hopefully, they're not from a hybrid selection that doesn't "come true" from seed. They are propagated by small offsetting ...

Every year, seed collectors in Ontario go out searching for pods, cones, and nuts – seeds for trees which they harvest and save. This year, there’s been a rocky start to the seed collection season in ...