| Michael |
| | June 10, 2010 | Reply with quote | #13 |
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N Beagle, thank you for the notice on those Deborah Norway Maples. I'll have to take a drive up to Airdrie this weekend and cross my fingers!
It's also good to hear about your success with both the Autumn Blaze and Prairie Splendor maples. Working at a garden center, I know customers can be a little hesistant in trying them out. Examples of successful plantings make all the difference!
Cory, check to see if your tree has some flex in the stems. If they do, give the tree until the end of june. It's possible the primary buds got caught by a frost and the tree still has secondary buds that can shoot out). Also check to see if you can find swelling buds and whether it is a crisp green just underneth the bark. Those are signs of a healthy tree.
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| N Beagle |
| | June 11, 2010 | Reply with quote | #14 |
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I should have said that after I bought my Deborah Maple that left just two of them remaining there at the Airdrie Home Depot. You may want to phone around to the Home Depots in Calgary. They must all have them unless they are sold out. |
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| paul |
| | June 11, 2010 | Reply with quote | #15 |
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My prairie splendor norway maple flowered,and is fully leafed out....has a little hail damage from last monday but fully survived. Canyon meadows area |
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| Cory |
| | June 14, 2010 | Reply with quote | #16 |
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Thanks Michael,
There are buds at the tips of the branches that appear to be this years growth, the branches appear to have a spring to them as well I cut the tip of one and it seems to be relatively green. Thanks for the insight. Fingers still crossed!
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| Glenn |
| | June 19, 2010 | Reply with quote | #17 |
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| I live in Tuscany and planted an Emerald Queen Norway Maple in my back yard last year and it came back beautifully this spring. No tip kill or dieback at all. It leafed out late (what didn't this year) but still leafed out before the trembling aspens. The tree is about 3.5m tall with about a 50mm caliper. It's a stunning tree with a very thick, dense canopy and large leaves that start out red but turn green after a week or so. It looks very similar to a sugar maple but turns yellow in the fall. What really surprised me is that I lost some other trees that are native here but this one pulled through brilliantly.
There is a massive Norway maple on Uxbridge Drive NW that I believe is also an Emerald Queen. There is someone in Tuscany with a (fully chinook wind exposed) Crimson King/Prairie Splender Maple that has been there for at least 5 or 6 years and is also doing just fine. I've seen other examples of Crimson Kings around the city as well. I don't know the reason but several varieties of Norway Maples seem to do really well here and they should be planted more. I know the director of Parks for the city of Calgary and I'm going to recommend to her that the city do some trial plantings. I'm going to plant a Deborah Norway in my front yard and I am encouraged by the posts in this thread. I'll look at Home Depot to see if they have any left.
For anyone looking for unusual trees, I got my Emerald Queen at Spruce It Up Garden Centre. They special ordered it for me. Another place that will special order trees is Anything Grows in Cochrane. |
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| Glenn |
| | July 07, 2010 | Reply with quote | #18 |
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| For anyone interested I was at Golden Acres on the weekend and they have several Deborah Maples in 15gal pots. They are mislabeled as Crimson Kings but are definitely Deborahs - they have the dark green leaves. They are in much better shape than the ones at the Home Depot stores. |
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