Excess maple seeds this year... Need some?

If you knew they were sugar maples, I'd love some, but... I'll have to pass, on silver or random ones.

Pearl, btw, if you want some eastern redbud saplings, I can dig up some bare root trees next winter. 3-4' tall and ready to bloom in a couple years.

May Lotito wrote:Pearl, btw, if you want some eastern redbud saplings, I can dig up some bare root trees next winter. 3-4' tall and ready to bloom in a couple years.

No thank you :D
I consider them just as invasive. The neighbor's seeds get into the leaves I pick up, and I pull the baby redbuds as weeds.
I'm pulling hibiscus too, and honeysuckle, trumpet vines and vinca. When I moved here from the desert I'd have not believed I'd ever consider things like that weeds, took me a lot of work to get those to grow in the deesrt. That was before they started eating everything!
And there's no way I'm planting some of the seeds I brought with me from NM, wisteria etc, I'd never get rid of the babies!! The new kudzo!

If that's a Japanese red maple tree, you would make a fortune selling the seeds for $1 each.

May Lotito wrote:If that's a Japanese red maple tree, you would make a fortune selling the seeds for $1 each.

No. It's four some kind of hybrid silver maples in this yard, and another 15+ silver hybrids within wind range of the yard. I don't know what exactly they are, they are all a similar age, same age as these houses (mid 1970's.) They all look related, but none are actually identifiable as silver maples, or quite any other type of maple I can identify. I'm thinking they were all bought from the same place that grew them from seed all gathered in the same area, where different types were inbreeding. They are not exciting mixed breeds, just not quite any of the above, and all are slightly different from each other, but all look like siblings. And most of them throw helicopters like crazy things. Some start earlier, some run later, some are throwing helicopters all over right now, some haven't even started making them yet. They grow and drop their leaves in random patterns too. Odd critters, not exciting, just odd.