When you have a medium or large garden you need trees that provide good shade to protect us from the sun, especially during the summer. If we also live in a mild climate with winter frosts, nothing like planting a real maple, whose beauty we will be able to enjoy throughout the year.
Its maintenance is not difficult if the weather is good, as it also resists low temperatures very well. Do we know it?
Origin and characteristics
Our protagonist it is a deciduous tree native to Europe, the Caucasus and Asia Minor whose scientific name is Acer platanoides. It is popularly known as royal maple, Norway maple, Norwegian maple, or platanoid maple, and reaches a height of up to 35 meters. The leaves are palmate and serrated, green in spring and summer and reddish in autumn. The trunk is smooth, with light gray bark.
The flowers are arranged in panicles and are yellowish-green. It blooms in spring. Once they are pollinated, the fruit begins to ripen, which are samaras.
What are their cares?
If you want to have a copy, we recommend that you provide it with the following care:
- Location: outside, in full sun. In the case of living in the Mediterranean region, it will grow best in semi-shade.
- Earth:
- Garden: the soil must be fertile, slightly acidic and well drained.
- Pot: it cannot always be grown in a pot due to its characteristics, but it can be grown for a few years with a growing medium for acidic plants or with akadama.
- Irrigation: 3-4 times a week in summer, somewhat less the rest of the year. Use rainwater or lime-free.
- Subscriber: from early spring to late summer with organic fertilizers, once a month.
- Multiplication: by seeds in autumn (they need to be cold before germinating in spring). Also by cuttings in late winter.
- Rusticity: supports the cold down to -15ºC, but cannot live in tropical climates.
What did you think of the real maple?