Sugar Maple Shade Tree | Shade Trees from Gurney's Seed and Nursery

Sugar Maple Shade Tree

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The Sugar Maple is a long-lived hardwood which casts cool shade in spring and summer and is famous for its rich crimson-and-gold fall foliage. Grows 60-75 feet tall with a symmetrical shape. It's the one tapped for sap to process into maple syrup. Does sweet things for the look of your yard, too!

Gurney’s trees are shipped as dormant bareroot stock that leafs out into handsome, healthy specimens that do our lawn and landscape proud.

Bareroot. Zones 3-8.

Product Details

Zones: 3 - 9 (-30° F.)
Height: 50-80 feet
Depth: same as previously planted
Spread: 50-60 ft
Sun/Shade: full-part sun
Color: greenish-yellow
Foliage: medium green turning to golden/orange/red in fall
Blooms: April, beforeleaves
Fruit: samara 1-1.5 in long

Comments: If soil is heavy, mix with peat moss, dehydrated cow manure, or compost. Hold plant in hole with previous planting stain at ground level.Spread roots, add soil to fill 1/2 way, compact soil, complete fillling, compact soil, water well. Commonly lives 75-100 years. Medium to dark green leaves in summer. Yellow, orange, red tones in fall. Bark is dark gray-black with age. Water deeply once per week to keep the tree at its best. Feed yearly with a commercial 10-10-10 according to directions.One of the most popular lawn and road specimens due to habit and fall color.
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Sugar Maple Shade Tree Ships In The Spring
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- Thursday, January 22, 2009
30+ year old tree
Reviewed By: Sharon (Pittsburgh, PA)
When we were kids, we pulled this tree out of the woods and stuck in in my parent's yard. Those woods were cut down to build houses. Today the tree is gorgeous! It is a huge 30+ year old tree that has wonderful, bright green leaves in the spring, perfect rich green in the summer, and nothing tops the reds, oranges and yellows this tree puts out in the fall. The neighborhood is lucky to have it! It makes the best leaf piles too for jumping, since they are huge leaves! The shape of the tree is so full with a strong trunk and branches. I have moved since and look for sugar maples around here in the fall just to look at. I wish I had a yard to plant one!!!! If you have a yard, plant one for the rest of us to see!!! Thanks!

- Monday, April 23, 2007
BEAUTIFUL
Reviewed By: Gwen (Yates Center, Kansas)
This tree is the most beautiful tree that there is in the fall, nothing compares to it. If you are looking for a wonderful shade tree, that is also has wonderful color in the fall, look no more. you will be the talk of the town. I LOVE MINE...

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