Our BIG Maple Tree

Okay - so we've lived her for nearly a year and a half. But... we still have so much to learn about our neck of the woods. See woods below...

This big tree is on the NW corner of our lot. We were told it's a Maple Tree. As you can see, it's huge! It would probably take 3 or 4 people, holding hands, to wrap their arms around it's truck.

It's leaves look like Maple leaves - at least I am easily convinced they do. But do you see the flowers up there?

But do Maples bloom? I don't think so. Imagine my surprise when, while working outside the other day I noticed the tree is covered in tulip like flowers!

Pretty, yes? Come to find out, this is a Tulip Poplar. I had learned about them in the gardening classes I took in March. They're native to the Eastern US. They grow to 90' tall. In fact, they gave away a few saplings but I knew I didn't have room for one on my little chunk of land because I already had a huge Maple - ha! The jokes on me. This one has probably been on this land for a very long time.