The red maple (Acer rubrum) that puts on a show nationwide in the fall doesn't do very well here in our alkaline soils, but there are other maples available for use here in North Texas.

Red maple (Acer rubrum) flowers before its leaf buds break ... sow corn when the oak leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear, or prune roses when the Forsythia blooms. More than 40 million ...