Red maple (Acer rubrum) flowers before its leaf buds break. Some trees bear only male flowers like the ones above, producing no seeds, some only female flowers, and some are monoecious ...
A few weeks after the buds redden, they will break into flower, offering bees and insects a critical early source of pollen ...
How long will it take your new red maple to grow into a full-sized tree? In general, maples have a fairly quick growth rate, ...