![]() "So a maple can't produce fertile seed by it self?" Just an indication of what this particular contractor was like to work with. Well, you know how this turned out, right? A day or two later, there sat a semi trailer loaded with plants, amongst which were several hundred chokeberries! She wasn't the type to listen! Luckily, the DNR guy who had the last word was okay with the Aronias. Well, "*arcy" kept saying 'chokeberry', itself a fine native plant, and I kept saying "now *arcy, chokeberry is a nice plant, but this plan calls for chokecherry. One of the understory plants called for in the plans was our native chokecherry. The gal who was put in charge-this after the original foreman got fired mid-project-was herself a piece of work. That was a funny, if frustrating summer, when those guys were up here working. The good news there is that nature always produces far more offspring than will ever survive to adulthood. ![]() ![]() But here, because this is in town, Norway maple seedlings abound also. Meanwhile, that woods and every other woods in this region is packed with sugar maple seedlings at the ground layer. Of course, I was not impressed with any aspect of that company, which name shall not be written here. We don't tend to use cultivars-not even "nativars"-in these types of projects. maples "because they were cultivars"!!! As if that-even if true-would have made one bit of difference. So, still trying to not take these stupid trees back to Chicago, a mere 200 miles south of us-they then said that that nursery told them the trees looked like N. They actually had the nerve to argue with me about it! I did the petiole thing with the sap, which is just plain conclusive. They sucked in so many ways, but above all, I cringe at the thought of how many projects they've had where there was nobody on hand to inspect the plant material as it arrived at the site. I'm wondering.I must have related the story on these pages of the big stream restoration project with the gypo Illinois contractor that tried to pass off Norway maples as sugar maples?!? What a crock that all was. One look at that white sap ought to tell you that, but I never really thought about it for years. As someone up yonder alreadymentioned, even though we often tend to think of Norway maple as Europe's version of, or should I say, Europe's occupier of similar niche-to our sugar maple, they are not even really all that closely related.
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