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it was planted early in this century when Norway Maples were favored because of their rapid growth.
I like to think my Red Maple sprouted from a seed that whirled its way through the air on a windy day and came to rest on the ground beside the log house where I live.
Certainly my maple produces enough of the two-parted, winged seeds, called samaras, to create a whole forest of Red Maples. Few samaras produce trees, however, for a maple seed must sprout within 24 hours of landing on the earth.
Nature is prodigious with potential maple life. All those millions of seeds seem excessive when the results are revealed: only a few Red Maples. Nature will take no chances. Life must go on and a surplus is created. That surplus in the form of red samaras provides food for chickadees and the chipmunk that gathers and stores them underground.
Others decompose and enrich the soil for the parent tree. My wild flower garden is shaded and enriched by this maple. Though appearing wasteful by the narrow standards of we humans, nature never is. Everything is recycled.
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