Patio tree recommendations - chicago

[savvydanny]

Hello,

we are looking to plant a tree near our patio, 2" caliper or so. we live in chicago area and the tree will face west and receive afternoon sun. I have come down the follow choices and was hoping to receive comments / advise on these selection in order to choose one:

3 flowered maple
Amur Maackia
Crimson Sunset maple

Thanks, Dan

 

[JeffGu]

If I remember correctly, Crimson Sunset is a very similar cultivar to Autumn Blaze, a red maple that's very popular here in Nebraska. Our weather here is very similar to yours, and these medium sized maples do extremely well here. Beautiful color, vigorous tree, not fragile. I can only recall seeing one that didn't look healthy, in recent years, and that one had been hit by a truck. The damage to the trunk caused a lot of the tree to die back. They seem to be an extremely tough tree that grows well in just about any soil. I haven't seen any storm damage to them, and that's a big plus right there. You probably have thought about that, yourself, living in Chicago. Winter storms there are like ours... absolutely nasty in a bad year. The Silver Maple trees take horrid beatings, but those little red maples just chug along looking fine.

So, I'm not advocating one over the others, just passing on my impressions of that one. Can't really go wrong with that one, they're very nice trees. Watch your spacing and leave room for their mature size, as they have a very nice shape if they have room to grow.

 

[The_Archdruid]

You're thinking Red Sunset, which is a red maple. Autumn Blaze is a hybrid between a silver and a red, and also acts like a goddamned werewolf in the landscape. It is brushy, crowded and overgrown, short lived (in alkaline soils) and a true menace when the moon is full.

Crimson Sunset is a hybrid between a Norway maple and a Shantung. It stays smaller, has a nice form and speaks perfect mandarin.

 

[oldoakman]

You're thinking Red Sunset, which is a red maple. Autumn Blaze is a hybrid between a silver and a red, and also acts like a goddamned werewolf in the landscape. It is brushy, crowded and overgrown, short lived (in alkaline soils) and a true menace when the moon is full.

Crimson Sunset is a hybrid between a Norway maple and a Shantung. It stays smaller, has a nice form and speaks perfect mandarin.

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[JeffGu]

It stays smaller, has a nice form and speaks perfect mandarin.

Well, then... I stand corrected. Still, the Autumn Blaze maples look great around here. But they are speechless and don't like noodles.

 

[kstreehuggerco]

The AB maples around here have a tendency to go chloritic. Everyone loves the fall color, but They tend to be lime green all year long. Check your soil.

 

[easyphloem]

You're thinking Red Sunset, which is a red maple. Autumn Blaze is a hybrid between a silver and a red, and also acts like a goddamned werewolf in the landscape. It is brushy, crowded and overgrown, short lived (in alkaline soils) and a true menace when the moon is full.

Crimson Sunset is a hybrid between a Norway maple and a Shantung. It stays smaller, has a nice form and speaks perfect mandarin.

I'm going to read this to my son for a bedtime story tonight.


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[JeffGu]

I'm going to read this to my son...

I was touched by that. Well, maybe not touched in the way you're thinking, but I was affected by it. I know that years from now, whenever someone mentions your name, I'm going to say, "Well, at least he wasn't shooting blanks, or illiterate!"

 

[Treezybreez]

I was touched by that. Well, maybe not touched in the way you're thinking, but I was affected by it. I know that years from now, whenever someone mentions your name, I'm going to say, "Well, at least he wasn't shooting blanks, or illiterate!"

I'm just trying to decide what is more disturbing, the fact that Easy has offspring or the thought of him polluting children with Treebuzz.