"echinosum" wrote in message
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graham;874394 Wrote:
"In Canada, maples are *never* pruned until after the Spring sap has
stopped
flowing, late June at the earliest in this area. Is this the same for
Norway and other Acers in the UK?

That's not a problem with the kinds of maple that naturally grow in
Britain, even though the sugar maple looks rather similar to the Norway
maple. My neighbour has a Norway maple right on the property boundary,
so close that the expansion of the trunk is knocking the fence over. It
has suckers from the base that I hack away at whenever I feel like it,
and it never weeps sap.

The season is too short for sugar maples where I live but other species will
bleed very badly if pruned too early. The same thing applies to the birches
here.
Graham



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