There are many reasons to grow maple trees in Florida. It’s a place where maples (Acer) can be found growing in the wild of Mother Nature and among the manicured landscapes of suburbia. Several kinds of maples are native to Florida, giving backyard gardeners like me and perhaps you, too, many options. Native Florida maples…

Planting a tree the right way isn’t necessarily hard, but it does take some know how to do it correctly. If you plant a tree, its entire future largely depends on what you did — or didn’t do — when planting it in your landscape. Just doing a few simple things can help ensure your…