The red maple is the first native tree to blossom on Staten Island. From a distance, it's easy to spot the bright red of the female flowers (at top of photo) and orange-red appearance of the male ...

You know spring is just around the corner when you see a red haze spread across woodland areas, suburban yards and city streets. "What you see are the male and female flowers of red maple." Native red ...

You know spring is just around the corner when you see a red haze spread across woodland areas, suburban yards and city streets. “One of the first signs of spring is the red haze over the bare limbs ...

I’ve been watching red maple flowers every spring for a few years now and photographing them. The pictures help because I am poor at keeping a journal. I realized I had never learned about how such an ...

This is the time of year we look for signs of spring — any signs of spring. The ice, the cold, the snow — they make us long for any signal that the kinder seasons are on the horizon. And the slightest ...

Red maple trees, like this one in Calais, Vt., can be beautiful even before autumn foliage hits. Credit: AP file New Englanders have a right to brag about the fall foliage that graces our hillsides in ...

A couple of questions came in recently about red maple trees. Lena said her maple on the side of her Stuart home looks like it is struggling. She reports it bloomed some and set seeds, but many of the ...