Hi all, I have a number of Maple seedlings that I plucked up from a park a few months ago. Yes, yes, TOTALLY the wrong time, but it was that or let them get raked under. So... more to the point... They didn't (understandably) do very well. Some kept growing, some stayed the same, and some lost their leaves. My question is: so long as the saplings have terminal buds that haven’t dried-up or rotted off, is there a chance that they will leaf-out again come spring? M.
Yes. However, if they were coming up in a sheet under the trees probably something weedy like Norway maple or at least locally common, like bigleaf maple. While not as pervasive a pest out here as in the humid east there are a few places where Norway maple has wild here. One Seattle park has many thousands of them coming up under the native trees (including bigleaf maple, which isn't reproducing nearly as well on the same site). Bigleaf maple might be of use if you have a need for large native deciduous trees, such as if you have a country place. Other maples, of course, such as Japanese maple or vine maple may sometimes be found popping up readily in cultivated situations here. Japanese maple can be downright weedy in watered gardens.
I got most of them from under a green Japanese Maple. I'm sure that is what they are. The other one (was 2, I chucked one after it lost it's leaves) I don't really know about. Could you suggest a site that has leaf images I could use to ID it?
