Other Years

Silver Maple, 2003

2009
July 4: Coming along fine.
 
2008
May 25: The leaves are developing. They vary from 2 cm to 4 cm in length, not counting the stems. It has been a late spring.
June 16: Doing fine although the terminal bud at the top did not develop and so 2 lateral branches are going up. It does not have many cankerworms on it, with which I am pleased.
July 3: The city workers came around today and trimmed all the boulevard trees. They took one branch off the silver maple then I asked them to stop. I told them that I was looking after it, and they didn't take any more off.
August 16: I pruned.
 
2007
April 15: Some bits of the twigs are wet, with the liquid apparently coming from the interior.
June 3: Almost all the foliage has been turned lacy by cankerworms.
24: There is now little sign of the cankerworm damage.
 
2006
April 24: Budding.
August 1: Doing fine.
 
2005
May 9:  Some of the leaf buds were opening into separate leaves today.
June 24:  Doing fine.
July 29:  About 1437 leaves. Pruned.
October 2:  The leaves are a pretty yellow.
 
2004
June 23:  Doing well.   I can not reach the top tip now.
August 5:  1014 leaves.
August 15:  Pruned.
 
2003
April 29: It is budding.
May 29:  Doing fine.
July 23:  415 leaves, plus a few at the base.
August 15:  Pruned.
 
2002
May 21: Budding well now.  It has been a late spring.
~August 12: I trimmed some branches to encourage a tree-like shape.   It is just slightly taller than me now.
September 9: It has 166 leaves.   Before trimming I estimate it would have had 220.
 
2001
May 1: It is budding.
June 18: It looks fine, but the top terminal bud did not grow into a very long stem, whereas a lateral one near it did. I guess it will need some pruning this August.
August 21: I pruned the plant to remove 3 larger side stems.
 

Silver Maple Leaves, 2000

2000
May 7: Leaves are out.
June 24: 150 leaves.
August 8: Doing fine, except that many of the leaves are yellowish, especially around the edges.
 
1999
March 17: The plant appears fine. It's tip appears ok.
May 1: Some leaves are half grown.
June 7, 30: Flourishing.
July 13: 56 inches tall, 1.42 m, with about 87 leaves.
August 3, 31: Flourishing nicely.
September 1: I pruned it, removing 3 branches to keep it tree-like.
 
1998
April 15: Budding.
May 2: In leaf.
June 1: Flourishing.
 
1997
June 1: Growing well enough. Leaves large.
10: Top leaves again ripped off.
25: New leaves.
August 7: 70 cm tall, and flourishing.
 
1996
May 4: I think it lost its tip due to water pipe repairs during the winter, but its buds are swelling.
28: Small crinkled leaves.
July 3: 52 cm tall.
 
1995
May 9: Budding at its tip. The new growth looks fuzzy and wrinkled.
16: Broke off a bud in the bottom part of the trunk.
26: Someone ripped off all leaves.
June 15: Two side buds at the top have leaved out, and there are several leaves at the base too.
 
1994
May 12: Budding at the top.
June 21: Doing well. 44 cm (17.5 inches) high with 8 leaves. In May I built a fence around it.
September 9: Same height, starting to lose its leaves.
 
1993
June 14: Planted a silver maple tree on the boulevard just south of my house. The tree came from the bank of the Assiniboine River near Osborne Street. It is 11 inches (27 cm) high. It was growing in the shade in clay soil.
This was the first entry in my garden book.