but red and sugar maples experience them as well. The bumps emerge pale green from the leaves' surfaces before deepening to red. While unsightly, especially on trees grown primarily for their foliage, these blemishes are a maple tree's way of defending itself against a...
The result is a discolored, sometimes sunken, area of bark on the southwest-facing side of the tree. Young trees, newly planted trees, and thin-barked trees such as cherry, crabapple, honey locust, linden, maple, mountain ash, and plum are prone to sunscald. How to Protect: You can ...
Trees like Japanese maple, star magnolia, crabapple, flowering dogwood, sugar maple, arborvitae, blue spruce, and desert willow add beauty and color to the landscape. Shrubs like rose, holly, lilac, azalea, flowering quince, and spirea have a smaller footprint with beautiful flowers perfect for ...