This week, Don Kinzler answers questions about a struggling Autumn Blaze maple tree, tips for planting a new hibiscus, and why this year's tomatoes may taste bland. Reader Eileen D. asks gardening ...

Q: The attached photo of the silver maple in our front yard was taken Dec. 17. The tree is 23 years old and has yet to drop the majority of its leaves. It normally is late to shed the leaves, but this ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Greg Ilgenfritz and Melanie Bathe sit for an engagement portrait among the leaves of Autumn Blaze Maple trees just before sunset ...

I would like to plant a red maple tree but I want to be sure that it has brilliant red fall color. Someone suggested an 'Autumn Blaze' maple. What do you think? Is that a good choice and does it grow ...

An autumn blaze maple outside Fred Taylor’s west Mankato home is showing early signs of spring. He noticed it in the buds, seeing a few peek open here and there after one of this winter’s many warm ...

Autumn has always been bittersweet for me. The garden winds down – who am I kidding? – it droops, plops, falls over and goes boom, apparently terrified into fainting at the first frost. Tree leaves ...

* What it is: A shade tree that’s a cross of two maple species, combining the great fall color of our native red maple with the durability of silver maple. Autumn Blaze is a fast-grower that’s ...

The suggestion came from a reader. Most of my good ideas do. I give ‘em a test drive and if I don’t screw up too badly, I pass them on to you. Tapping a sugar maple to make syrup is not normally the ...

It’s only August and the leaves of the “Autumn Blaze” maple (Acer x freemanii 'Jeffersred') at The Greenhouse Project are completely yellow. What’s going on? This maple is a hybrid of silver (Acer ...

In 1893, a favorite tree was selected by a group of Wisconsin school children. The maple beat out oak, pine and elm trees. In 1948, that selection was narrowed by another vote to sugar maple ...

I have a red Japanese maple that is planted too deep. It has lots of feeder roots near the soil surface. I disturbed the roots while removing soil from the root flare. Did I hurt the tree? How should ...