Silver Maple Acer Saccharum Sugar Maple Tall brown barked native to central and northern North America. Famous for its red and gold fall foliage and sweet sap which can be boiled in early spring to make syrup and candy. Severely affected by acid rain. Flowering Crabapple Flowering crab apple is a deciduous flowering tree that grows 15 to 25 feet tall. It produces abundant clusters of white to pink or purplish single flowers and yellow, orange or red to purple fruits that are 2 inches or smaller.
Some species bloom only in alternate years.
The flowering branches often make attractive cut flowers. At maturity they vary in height from 35 to 70 feet, depending on the variety chosen, and usually spread to about an equal distance. In fall the leaves turn pale yellow and disintegrate as they drop, so that raking is hardly ever necessary. The bark on both the branches and the trunks of thornless honey locusts becomes nearly black as the trees mature, in winter providing a dramatic contrast in a snowy garden.