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Old 02-14-2012, 12:05 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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Hello all,
My wife would really like a red maple tree for our back yard (live in Horizon City) and according to the zone maps one should be able to grow a red maple tree in EP but I have never seen one or heard of anyone growing one.
The closest I can find is the bigtooth maple.
Any advise?
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Old 02-14-2012, 12:50 PM
 
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Old 02-14-2012, 11:40 PM
 
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Hello all,
My wife would really like a red maple tree for our back yard (live in Horizon City) and according to the zone maps one should be able to grow a red maple tree in EP but I have never seen one or heard of anyone growing one.
The closest I can find is the bigtooth maple.
Any advise?
Soil here is too alkaline and it's too dry. I'd go with a tree that is suited to the climate and soil. It's better to just go along with nature than fight it.
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:35 PM
 
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Default Depends....

If you are talking about a Red Maple tree, or a Japanese/Chinese Red Maple tree. Either way, problems with El Paso's climate would require special considerations.

A standard Red Maple tree uses a lot of water, so you would have to water every day, and when they mature, they take in scores, maybe hundreds of gallons per day as do large Oak trees. Of course, that is through an extensive root system, so they need to have large areas to draw water from. In places like Houston, that is not a problem, and they grow pretty nice, and are huge, in fact, sometimes they grow too much and the bark cannot keep up and cracks because the tree grows too fast.

The other variety, the Chinese/Japanese Red Maple trees are smaller, miniature almost. They can be grown in containers and require regular watering, but the problem those would have in El Paso is the hot and arid conditions. The leaves are very small and delicate, about the size and shape of a marijuana leaf (not that I have ever seen one :^) and so the dry climate in El Paso combined with the constant sun would damage it. However, if in a pot, the pot can be moved to shade when needed. No pun intended, really.

I have some Chinese/Japanese Red Maple trees in Houston, and even here the leaves are damaged just by the heat, not the dry conditions. They are a spectacular blood red color in the spring, but the heat and strong sun light sometimes cause the leaves to turn green in color and then it looks like a marijuana tree through the summer... so I've been told.
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Old 02-16-2012, 06:25 AM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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Well it sounds like I should just convince her that the bigtooth maple is the way to go. at least its native to EP. I have seen pics that show them to be red.
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Old 04-04-2017, 08:23 PM
 
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I did have one here in EP and it was growing well in my back yard, but I moved and tried to move it too-- it didn't make it. By the way I bought it at Home Depot.
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Old 04-07-2017, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Not a maple, but I had good luck when living in eastern El Paso with Red Bud trees. Very ornamental. I don't know the variety that was being sold at that time but a local nursery might know.
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