{"id":8270,"date":"2020-07-14T03:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2020-07-14T03:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:43:52","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-195-acer-macrophyllum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/14\/plant-a-day-2020-day-195-acer-macrophyllum\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 195) Acer Macrophyllum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bigleaf Maple is an amazing native tree. My first recollections of this plant are in the park near our house in Kent, Washington, where these trees were part of the woodland, along with Douglas fir, Western Hemock, and Western Red Cedar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our nextdoor neighbor here in North Seattle had a big specimen that had been topped at one point and had sent up some big suckers from the base, one of which became a good sized tree of its own. When a new house was built on that property, the tree was killed\u2013only a big stump remains that chickadees nest in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our yard isn\u2019t large enough to host a full-sized Bigleaf Maple, but I keep a few saplings around and just prune them back every year so any fauna that is dependent on this plant\u2019s leaves can find some in my yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n