Gardening

They can be sort of invasive, in the respect that they seed like crazy and you end up with maple shoots all over your yard and zillions of seeds in your gutters. They grow very fast and become quite large, but the wood is soft and as the tree gets old it weakens and can split or fall over. My neighbor has an enormous one in his back yard that he really doesn't want but it's so big that it would cost a fortune to have someone take it out. So you want to consider whether you really want a huge, messy tree in your yard.