Hi romatravel - Depending on your zone ... if you still have time before Winter sets in, I think you might still have a bit of time ... Fall planting is always great for me. However you won't have time to ground-layer stems as I have done, ahead of time for insurance, in case digging & relocating fails ... you might be able to still do some stem clippings to grow indoors. As with this first attempt I did, it only took 2 weeks for the clumps to prove their resiliency & show survival from the assaults of the shovels & stress of the relocation. Knowing what I know now, in my zone I still have 'til Nov. I suggest you talk to a respectable/knowledgeable nursery, for their thoughts as well ... Good luck! Hi Madeyna - The pot-layering I did was basically similar & I think simpler, since I had to remove them from the, less than ideal site. I have another that I ground layered, an ES, in the mom's adjacent site, simply because the stem was naturally arching down on the ground. I did a shallow furrow, covered with soil & topped with a brick. I'll be checking in Spring. Several different H. stem clippings, I attempted this summer seem to be doing well ... will over-winter in the garage & plant them for my dil! Have a great Fall day!

David, VW can often invade during dormancy and make severe inroads - it is quite common - and a pretty pernicious attack it can be as it is difficult to diagnose any problem when the tree is not in leaf :-( The first sign that there is any problem is a failure of large portions of the tree to leaf out in spring. As to the rapidity of its spread, it can be very sudden, decimating an entire tree within a matter of days, although that is far more typical with young trees than it is with mature, well-established ones and is generally more of a midseason phenomenon. I've had it happen myself and it is startling to see how fast a decline can be produced. With a tree this mature, an overnight or very rapid decline is quite unusual - generally it is just a portion of the tree that is affected and if otherwise healthy, the tree is often able to compartmentalize the pathogen and even outgrow the problem. From such a distance and by only verbal description, it is pretty nigh impossible to determine what exactly may be the cause of the problem. We are ony offering speculations. I would agree that replanting with another maple (or other VW susceptible species) in the same location is NOT advised.

Have new cushions made in a fabric, then keep or sell it. "As Is" now may not bring much.

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