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Kentucky Color: Early Spring Flowers By Billy Joe Fudge There are more Red Maple trees in the United States than any other! Many are cultivars of the original, including this one. Red Maples and Silver Maples are some of the earliest flowering native trees in the Great Wooded South. These early spring flowers (see photo) on a Red Maple cultivar in the Columbia Walmart parking lot are beautiful but are nothing like the original Red Maple flowers. I have an original Red Maple in my yard that I dug in the woods back in the nineties. It is about forty feet tall and the trunk at 5 feet above the ground is about eighteen inches in diameter. I planted both a Red and Sugar Maple at the same time in my yard on the southwest end of the house. They shade that end of the house from the scorching summer sun saving me $80 to $100 a month on my electric bill from mid-spring thru early fall. In your yard original Red Maples will grow 40-60 feet tall and in the woods as tall as 90 feet in height. Most cultivars will not be nearly as tall. This story was posted on 2025-03-22 08:23:28
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