Funny that I logged in to lurk here and I see this post.
You can grow certain oaks in Calgary. Bur Oak (Native to Manitoba) can grow here but are fairly picky due to our soil and freeze thaw cycles. I have also seen red oak and pin oak grow here but they are stunted and small.
A few maples grow here, but the manitoba maple is more of a weed. I do love the shape of it and I have a few on the edge of my property that I have scculpted quite nicely. Norway maple is purple maple that will grow here in a sheltered location. The silver cloud maple and sugar maple will grow too, but only in sheltered locations. You have to protect the roots in the winter to make sure the roots do not thaw. I like to locate them on the east side of a spruce or pine tree so that the afternoon chinook sun wont thaw the roots.
The same goes for ohio buckeye. These need sheltered roots and often grow pretty stunted.
I have seen all of the trees listed above growing in the river valley areas in sheltered locations. kensington has some good examples and so does the elbow river area.
Central memorial park has the largest bur oaks in calgary. They are still fairly small but must have been planted about 20 years ago?
Cheers!
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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Not very well, there are a few Maple trees, but they don't usually grow very big or are killed by an early or late frost. What happened to that KW5150 guy, he was a landscape architect I believe and could probably provide clearer answers.
I think we do get Manitoba Maples here, but they make a damn mess with their helicopter seed pods.
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