Moose break off branches of poplar saplings and of red and striped maples to feed on the terminal buds and twigs. |
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Likewise, gypsy moths preferentially feed on oak foliage compared to foliage of red or striped maples. |
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Before long patterns emerged, with maples and horsechestnuts hard hit and London planes and lindens unaffected. |
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Beyond the pane of glass, oaks, elms, and maples are a swelling tide of green, lapping to and fro in hardworking winds. |
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We especially liked the colorful heathers and the brilliant Japanese maples. |
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Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels. |
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I traveled down to a brook among dark maples, where the early skunk cabbage leaves were just beginning to appear. |
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Sugar maples, red maples, dogwood, sweet gum, black gum and sourwood can be brilliant red or yellow. |
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There was a chill in the air with winds from the not-so-distant fog harassing the prematurely yellowed leaves of maples. |
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At the end of the road, the view of nature is replaced by rows of small villas surrounded by colourful chrysanthemums and dark-red maples. |
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The garden includes ferns, hydrangeas, irises, waterlilies, camellias, rhododendrons, Japanese maples and fuchsias. |
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It wasn't so much different from Utah, but for the fact that this had more maples and oaks than pine trees, and that it was absolutely flat. |
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Sugar maples commonly share the forest with ironwood, beech, basswood, white ash, black cherry, yellow birch, white pine, and red oak. |
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The trees are also familiar, these most impressive oaks, maples, elms and ash, for they somehow survive the hardship of an urban landscape. |
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But all around the edge, there were giant oaks and maples, stark, bare and black, and a few pines, as green as ever. |
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There were twenty-one poplars, silver maples and white birch and a large number of saplings and brush removed. |
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Fluffy white layers drape the branches of maples and hemlocks overhanging the road and the frozen creek running beside it. |
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The woods there are thick, mostly high maples and beeches whose leafy crowns create a canopy overhead. |
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Nestled amid those trails and orange red maples, oaks, beeches and birches was the Lost River. |
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Around it is a simple planting of dwarf cryptomeria, ferns, grasses, and laceleaf maples. |
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Large field maples will give height and density and will be underplanted with sessile oak and small leaf lime trees. |
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I dodged trees, oaks and maples and elms and the occasional sparse, skinny willow, in order to catch up with her. |
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You can make syrup from silver or red maple, box elder, and even birch trees, but sugar maples are the most effective choice for sweet sap. |
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A few types of insects live on red maples, including weevils, buff-tip moths, and vapourer moths. |
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Mostly here it is pines but there were some maples and the understory verge was thistle and burr shoulder to shoulder with thistle-like knapweed. |
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Marcia especially likes Japanese maples, ornamental grasses, and plants with variegated foliage. |
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Under our grove of old growth firs we planted 10 vine maples, 10 sword ferns, 5 evergreen huckleberries and 5 kinnikinniks. |
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The severe summer drought got to the lemon verbena long before my silver maples started shedding leaves in stress. |
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Its second-growth oaks, hickories, and sugar maples tower over the open pastures and fields of the lower slope and bottomland. |
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In many other trees such as black gum, sassafras, dogwood, and some maples and oaks, the pigment anthocyanin adds red to the palette. |
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Green with bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples, the place invited refugees, partly because the foliage seemed a center of coolness and life. |
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Japanese maples can have wonderfully colored bark, in hues ranging from pea green to orange and pink. |
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They'll be squawking from the lindens, elms, and maples where cicadas sang during summer days. |
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Everything would be awash in pale yellow-green with cattails on the alders, and the maples trailing green seed plumes. |
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This park includes open lawns, mature oaks and maples, and a large population of gray squirrels, habituated to humans. |
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Dense shade can also occur under trees with dense foliage such as Norway maples and some conifers. |
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Although Acer palmatum is the classic Japanese maple there are other maples from Japan with a similar degree of elegance. |
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Some deciduous trees, such as many maples and oaks, can be pruned to allow more light to reach the ground. |
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For fall color, Bauer has planted sugar maples and scarlet oaks among the native trees. |
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Kaisaniemi Garden has some of the largest sycamores, Manchurian maples, American limes, cork trees, and katsuras in Finland. |
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We have been surprised at how drought-tolerant tiarellas are under our maples. |
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The Asian longhorned beetle that invaded New York in 1996 has since killed thousands of the state's hardwood trees, including maples, elms, willows, and poplars. |
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Although set in 24 acres of land, extra measures have been taken to plant more oaks, sycamores, maples and horse chestnut trees to provide increased privacy. |
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Laurel oaks, maples, pecans and sweetgum trees don't do as well. |
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They span the range of treedom, from maples of centurial stature, dripping with mosses and ferns, to the slender, shrub-like angelica trees luxuriating in the understory. |
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I hadn't noticed it before, but a light fog misted over the far off maples and oaks and straggly birches and weeping willows in dusk, dreary cheer. |
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Dykinga, left, also photographs places for beauty's sake alone, as was the case with his photoessay on big-tooth maples and other flora in southeastern Arizona. |
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The maples planted in the grassy border along the street were growing too large for their confinement, their roots buckling the uniform gray slabs of the sidewalk. |
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Covering the hillside around the patio is a tapestry of astilbes, azaleas, campanulas, ferns, hellebores, hostas, Japanese maples, moss, and rhododendrons. |
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The sugar maples, elms, and oaks he has handed out over the last three decades now grow in lawns, fields and parks throughout northwestern Pennsylvania. |
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The gardens have very successfully combined Japanese species such as azaleas, maples and cherry trees with native plants such as Canadian maples and red cedars. |
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The beetles' affinity for certain trees, like maples, poplars, willows, and elms, is significant because such attractive species may be used as sentinel trees. |
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In the native forests of the Oregon Cascades hemlocks, cedars, maples, many fir and pine species, and others are intermingled among the dominant Douglas fir. |
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Brilliant autumnal colors in areas where there are many deciduous trees, such as aspens and maples, result in paintings that are masses of yellow and orange. |
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Ideally, maples like neutral to acid soil with the addition of peat. |
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The eggs were not laid until the last week of April, as the weather warmed up, serviceberry bloomed, and maples, poplars, birches, and beeches were leafing out. |
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Red maples, sourwoods and gum trees are beautiful right now with birches, hickories and sugar maples beginning to join the autumn array. |
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Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango. |
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Sugar maples grow throughout the northeast, the Great Lakes area, and the southern Appalachians. |
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The roadside planting program has seen about 1,400 trees planted in the last seven years, replacing dead or dying sugar maples. |
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Although palmate leaves are typical of most Western maples, a number of species have leaves without lobes. |
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Worcester County has some later-turning, beautiful sugar maples, but there are far more oaks and Norway maples here. |
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Generally, I prefer 'soft' hardwoods, and I avoid trees with soft wood and slick bark like red maples and yellow poplars. |
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Japanese maples, varieties of Acer palmatum, are ideal for smaller gardens. |
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You can practically smell the sugar maples and wood violets. |
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For six weeks in late March and early April, the great sugar maples are tapped for their sap. |
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The gardens promise a great display including maples, liquidambars, tupelos and birches. |
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So on our lot, we have three maples, an oak, a catalpa, several Russian olives, a birch, some elms and sumacs, and a mountain ash. |
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Yellow and black birch were tapped like maples, producing an excellent maple syrup substitute. |
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Prickly ash, black locust, barberry, buckthorn, and maples in the shrub layer were killed, while young oaks appeared unaffected. |
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Some maples, dogwoods, black tupelo, cherries, sourwood, sassafras and stewartia are among trees that usually provide glorious autumn color. |
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Spittlebugs appear on pine trees, azalea mites on azaleas, cankerworms on elms and maples, lace bugs on the mountain ash. |
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The well-known sugar maples get their name because they are the source of maple sugar and syrup. |
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That is, homeowners have rooted cuttings or have dug from the yard trees or shrubs from flowering crab apples, dogwoods, maples or even oaks. |
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More than 6,000 native trees including field maples, oaks, alders and rowans have been planted so far. |
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Unlike many other maples, mature trees do not tend to develop a shaggy bark. |
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The tree tends to grow out leaves earlier than most maples and holds its leaves somewhat longer in autumn. |
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Norway maples are not typically cultivated for maple syrup production due to the lower sugar content of the sap. |
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The roots of Norway maples grow very close to the ground surface, starving other plants of moisture. |
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In addition, the dense canopy of Norway maples can inhibit understory growth. |
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Some have suggested Norway maples may also release chemicals to discourage undergrowth, although this is controversial. |
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At the Woodley Park garden, annual life cycle changes in fruit trees, Japanese maples, ginkgos, and crepe myrtles document the transition from one season to the next. |
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Japanese maples, or acers, may be expensive but they are still as popular as ever, possibly because there are varieties for almost every situation. |
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Japanese maples are slow growing and suitable for the smaller garden. |
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Kate brought a beautiful natural touch to Westminster Abbey, the venue for every coronation since 1066, with that avenue of field maples lining the nave. |
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Merrin scrupulously avoids the most extreme examples of the mania for oblivion and vigilance, but tulips and Norway maples show well enough where madness lies. |
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Last is the leaf-mining moth, whose caterpillars cause brown blotch mines on horse chestnuts as well as several acers or maples including sycamores and Norway maples. |
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It grows moderately fast and is often found growing with sugar maples. |
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Norway maples and London plane trees, for example, were a popular species choice in thee Northeast and Siberian elm was popular in the dry parts of the West. |
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The larva stage has a special liking for sugar, silver, Norway, boxelder and sycamore maples as well as elms, poplars, willows, birch, horse chestnuts and fruit trees. |
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In fall, the Japanese maples are vibrant cinnamons and yellows. |
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In years that maples are seeding synchronously in massive numbers, like 2012 and 2013, they use much of their nutrients to make samaroid schizocarps. |
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Wonders include Himalayan crabapple, flowering dogwood from China's Sichuan province, and an impressive collection of magnolias, maples, and roses. |
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Blackjack oak was second in IV in open canopy communities while in open and closed forests hickories and maples were second and third in importance. |
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The sanctuary's other habitats include forests of black cherry, red cedar, black locust, beech, and oak, with red maples and black gums in wet areas. |
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Some silver maples that Joe Parrott had tapped in February grew so much, despite inundation, that the tapholes were completely healed over by midsummer. |
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Those more inclined toward nordic kick-and-glide or skate skiing can get a workout on the Maples Nordic Loop. |
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Maples generally need little pruning, other than to remove root suckers and dead wood or branches that cross or grow too low. |
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Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants. |
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I learned that last phrase from a femme passifan Miss Marlene Maples. |
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