maple update

Here is our maple bud as of this morning.





Some of its newer leaves.







This is where the bud was.





This leaf is higher up the tree. If one plant made one leaf this size, I wouldn't find it so amazing, but for the plant to be covered with leaves (having been bare such a short time ago), and for some of the leaves to be this size.............







No difference in the seeds that I can see, from last week to this. You can see how flat the actual seeds are. I tore this one apart, to see if I could isolate just the seed, but it was stuck to the outside part and just shredded.





Maples are not (alas) the only back yard entities working on taking over the world.

Yesterday, after hanging out the wash, I noticed this.





A Siberian elm. With so many seeds that it looks beige/tan rather than green from the leaves. Ack!





Here's what the ground looks like in the opposite corner of the yard. All of those beige dots are Siberian elm seeds.

Luckily, most of these will not germinate. We get far fewer Siberian elm seedlings than maples..............



The Siberian elm is not in my yard. If it were, it would have been removed a long time ago. Unfortunately most of it overhangs my yard..................