Silver maple autumn11/25/2023 Several people on my street have Red Sunset Maples on well fertilized lawns, and they grew 12-20". Well I'm late to this party, but here's my $0.02. The growing season in New England is short so I would imagine a much larger tree down South in the same 7-year time frame. That pic really doesn't give you the 3-D perspective needed to appreciate it's size. It's much bigger in person than it looks in the picture from today. To get an idea of how fast Autumn Blaze grows, I've included a picture of mine when it was planted in 2002 and a picture of it today. The tree needs some pruning here and there to eliminate some poor branching angles. This is particularly obvious from it's root system which is extremely thick and aggressive. While the tree has a better structure than a silver maple, it still retains quite a bit of its characteristics from this parent. Some years, it puts on a decent show but other years not so much. My take on Autumn Blaze is that the fall color is less consistent than on the acer rubrum cultivars "October Glory" and "Red Sunset". I have both Autumn Blaze and October Glory and in my area the Autumn Blaze is faster growing although not by much. if you are within 100 miles of Columbus OH or so. and i will get you a reference to the tree farm. so also plan on acting at proper planting time. will most likely be outgrown by something half the size. but buying bigger is not necessarily going to get you anywhere faster. it will be there for 100 years longer than a maple. and he has been dealing with them on his 500 acres for 70 years. refer to the hundreds of posts in the hosta forum about maples. then maple is the second worse tree to plant under. If you think you will EVER want to garden. Please excuse any spelling errors as this computer doesn't have a spell checker I really liked this tree - would I plant another - I don't thinks so. No one locally could provide an explanation as to what the problem is with these ABs, but I did find an article on-line that pointed to the use of Roundup in the nursery and it being absorbed into the young bark. Then I checked around the neighborhood and all ABs - mostly younger trees that I had recommended - I found displayed the same conditions. It was obvious to me this tree was doomed and I cut it down recently. Also this spring the tree driopped a tremendous amount of seed and the fall color started setting in June. This occurred all around the trunk and there were only a couple places with cambium. This spring most of those seams opened exposing areas on the trunk where there was no cambium layer. These seams ran vertically from the base of the trunk up to where branching started - about 8 feet - and all around the trunk. This spring the tree had a 12"+ trunk and was about 45 tall.īUT - ever since being a young tree there were vertical seams in the bark. Fall color was always a good red - not as bright red as the Reds, but acceptable. My experience with AB - Planted a small B&B tree 10 years ago and it grew rather quickly, it's roots didn't invade and take over an adjacent flower bed, the foliage maintained a bright green color all summer including periods of drought(unlike the Reds whose foliage always drooped and looked stressed during those conditions), The limb structure was not bad for a fast growing tree and unlike all the Silvers in the neighborhood - sustained NO damage when Hurricane Ike blew threw Ohio. Well Amy, since we don't have any idea were you're located other than in zone 6B somewhere in the US, I'm not going to provide any recommendations.
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