Red maple seeds can germinate fast (the seeds are ready to grow as soon as the fruit is finished ripening). If you're planting them once the weather has warmed up, cold-stratify the seeds in the ...

need pretreatment before they will germinate or grow well. I was lucky the seed germinated at all! If an apple or maple seed grew as soon as it touched the ground in late summer or early fall ...

Maple seeds are familiar for their two small "wings ... don't let them. Watch for seedlings growing in problematic locations such as inside hedges, along fences, next to a home's foundation ...

Japanese maple can be a little difficult to propagate ... These are two dormancy mechanisms that nature employs to ensure that the seeds germinate at the right time of year, guaranteeing their ...

It isn’t just that they survive that cold; some seeds quite literally need that cold blast to germinate in spring. Temperatures as high as 39-40°F are sufficient for this process, so few ...

You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year ...

Iowa's silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...

I prefer to start most of my vegetables from seed selected from numerous seed catalogues. I personally enjoy growing several varieties of tomatoes and peppers that are not locally available for ...

Andrew Dickerson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – You may have noticed something different about the maple tree seeds this year: they’re pink. In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras ...