Comments on: Norway Maple: Is It Really a Bad Tree?

By: Joseph cebelinski

Joseph cebelinski — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:31:52 +0000

Here in a suburb of Chicago/Westchester. We have many of them planted and many seem to be slowly dying. I had an awful silver maple that the city removed six years ago along my parkway. I have three triumph elms on the parkway and have planted a wichita Osage orange tree in front of my house. Our city actually has a map of every tree in town...it is really cool. https://westchestergis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a10ede2e568949eb907dd64d1e06e9f5. My osage tree has died, but will be replaced by the city in October. Love my Elm trees, they are growing 3-5 ft a year and have a nice vase shape !

By: Janet

Janet — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:50:37 +0000

I have two in the backyard, probably planted in the 50’s? The shade is wonderful, but don’t expect to grow anything underneath without a ton of work. Branches and limbs fall frequently not to mention, I’m constantly tripping on the raised roots. NOT a good yard choice.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 01:05:52 +0000

I’ve got one in the hellstrip at my house. The developers plants it directly under the power line so it’s pruned aggressively by ComEd every year in a horrible lopsided crescent shape. It’s huge, healthy and beautiful in spite of that, but it worries me that it will snap in half from the uneven weight distribution.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 11 May 2023 01:31:37 +0000

We have a Norway maple in our front yard. It’s about 10 inches in diameter at breast height and we absolutely love it.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:23:04 +0000

I do have one in my garden (I currently live in France), it just grew out of the blue! I am keeping it as it is a beautiful tree in all seasons and seems very low maintenance so far (it’s 3 years old and already almost 2 meters high though I am regularly clipping it).