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. “One of the first signs of spring is the red haze over the bare limbs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout October, one life form in these parts satisfies more than all others. It is the red maple — your red maple, my red maple, the one down the road. It is the red maple of lowland swamps and ...

After a long winter, flowers in spring are always a welcome sight. Snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils are celebrated, bringing bright colors to our bleak brown yards. But if we look up, there are other ...

No plant can stir up a conversation this time of the year like the false roselle or African rosemallow. Thereason it stirs up the conversation is because a huge percentage of the visitors think it is ...