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Monday - October 10, 2005 at 04:19 PM inSugar Maples
We went to our place Up North this weekend, outside Grand Marais, MN. One of these days we'll build a cabin up there, but for now we have to make do with a hotel in town.
We were hoping to hit the peak of the fall color, which is spectacular. Our property is wooded with mostly mature sugar maples ranging from bright yellow to fluorescent orange and magenta. Unfortunately we got there about a week too late: the leaves were all gone at the top of the ridge on our property, though there was still plenty of color further down the hills and close to the shore of Lake Superior. Despite missing the color, I did achieve my secondary objective of bringing back several sugar maples to plant in our yard. I brought back seven trees, four for me and three for my mother. I wasn't sure how big a plant I could get away with transplanting, so I brought back a range of sizes from seven-foot saplings to 18-inch seedlings. We'll see what makes it. Several websites I looked at describe sugar maples as "easy to transplant," so I'm fairly optimistic that even the biggest of the plants will survive the move (bigger plants require cutting off more of the root system when transplanting, which is why the smaller ones are more likely to survive). If this experiment works, I may move some more trees next fall. Posted at 04:19 PM | Permalink | | | |